c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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6,043	69,398	I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.	Rachel Stevens	travel
3,658	43,023	Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.	Euripides	love
8,040	50,531	There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.	Pythagoras	music
1,594	38,040	For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.	Hugo Pratt	imagination
1,069	13,913	Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.	Berenice Abbott	death
1,606	72,248	I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.	Ryan Gosling	war
5,820	11,640	In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.	Joseph Stalin	courage
5,959	43,700	It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.	Emma Watson	love
426	25,981	I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.	Ellen DeGeneres	funny
11,581	49,491	What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.	LL Cool J	movies
6,893	41,179	I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.	Picabo Street	learning
5,496	44,907	These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.	Steve Jobs	medical
7,166	42,702	Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.	Al Lopez	life
2,947	14,795	An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.	Irv Kupcinet	diet
6,553	66,924	Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.	Alfred North Whitehead	technology
9,829	69,273	To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.	Charles Horton Cooley	travel
7,974	41,382	In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.	Koichi Tanaka	learning
6,397	53,443	I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.	Ariel Sharon	peace
7,552	35,745	In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.	Lee Child	home
3,543	26,066	There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.	Larry David	funny
8,679	42,084	For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.	Steve Jobs	life
377	58,679	But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.	Ernest Holmes	religion
3,961	4,736	We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.	Ambrose Bierce	attitude
5,534	6,191	The best proof of love is trust.	Joyce Brothers	best
979	52,799	Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.	Phyllis McGinley	peace
2,278	58,549	Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.	Thomas Paine	religion
5,159	42,719	I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.	Walt Disney	life
2,476	14,482	Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.	Walter Gropius	design
4,435	30,855	Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.	Theodore Roosevelt	great
11,122	68,079	We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.	John Hawley	thankful
650	31,273	To live alone is the fate of all great souls.	Arthur Schopenhauer	great
580	1,005	I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.	Audrey Hepburn	alone
9,924	26,875	I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.	E. B. White	future
10,416	51,865	If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.	John B. S. Haldane	nature
10,025	69,563	I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.	Dan Hawkins	travel
637	20,749	My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.	Blake Lively	family
1,032	51,756	Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.	Marquis de Sade	nature
4,411	4,420	There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.	William Osler	art
4,920	21,730	There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.	Andre Gide	fear
5,017	62,986	Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.	Chili Davis	society
2,189	13,265	I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.	David Gallagher	dating
7,435	72,015	World War II was the last government program that really worked.	George Will	war
5,487	7,462	The first mistake in public business is the going into it.	Benjamin Franklin	business
3,766	10,230	On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.	Jean-Francois Lyotard	communication
4,831	27,459	In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.	Daniel H. Wilson	future
11,384	51,240	Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.	Anthony J. D'Angelo	nature
2,310	37,998	When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.	Rhona Mitra	imagination
7,891	10,418	Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.	Steve Jobs	computers
1,614	50,735	I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.	Billy Corgan	music
602	33,289	I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.	Natalie Imbruglia	health
10,829	64,908	I have the strength to endure it all.	Moshe Dayan	strength
10,540	47,323	Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.	Andy Warhol	money
2,457	50,283	The real art of conducting consists in transitions.	Gustav Mahler	music
4,851	65,358	If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.	Henry David Thoreau	success
10,353	28,812	No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.	Abraham Lincoln	good
7,649	6,800	Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.	Donald Rumsfeld	best
9,193	65,967	Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.	Paula Radcliffe	success
3,374	27,695	I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.	Dorothy Malone	gardening
4,075	60,326	We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.	Donnie Wahlberg	respect
9,060	63,977	I've always had an interest in sports across the board.	Gabrielle Union	sports
888	22,187	I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.	Jeff Bridges	fear
3,900	34,947	Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.	Billy Sunday	home
9,964	51,479	The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.	William Blake	nature
1,738	23,600	From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.	Padma Lakshmi	food
7,919	33,156	Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.	Mary Baker Eddy	health
5,270	20,339	What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.	Snoop Dogg	family
11,402	18,277	A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.	Curt Siodmak	experience
8,701	39,249	The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.	James Thurber	knowledge
2,876	18,690	We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.	Mira Sorvino	failure
5,628	22,384	So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.	Steve Irwin	fear
2,219	47,126	Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.	Eric West	mom
10,327	51,960	I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.	Martha Graham	nature
7,672	65,558	A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.	Robert Foster Bennett	success
6,929	75,480	Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.	Norman Vincent Peale	christmas
10,852	47,954	If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.	Neal Boortz	money
3,545	72,873	Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.	Sidney Lanier	wisdom
8,180	70,159	When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.	Colin Mochrie	trust
2,587	70,921	This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.	Marcus Tullius Cicero	truth
3,839	55,294	In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.	Sarah Palin	politics
787	29,940	The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.	John Quincy Adams	government
2,110	51,595	There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.	Harry Crews	nature
6,700	34,186	No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.	Richard M. Nixon	history
3,306	47,262	If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.	Swami Vivekananda	money
2,038	67,282	Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.	Barry Diller	technology
1,929	56,141	It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.	Winona Ryder	positive
1,849	39,889	It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.	Henry James Sumner Maine	knowledge
10,294	71,390	Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.	David Duchovny	truth
747	60,767	In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.	Margaret Chase Smith	romantic
6,636	23,566	When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.	Rachael Ray	food
8,071	1,583	But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.	Dan Rather	alone
4,344	37,970	People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.	Matthew Bourne	imagination
8,686	27,047	In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!	Dan Quayle	future
2,692	36,847	A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.	Jessamyn West	humor
4,112	17,590	Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.	Steve Martin	experience
4,590	59,751	Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.	Dennis Prager	respect
9,288	70,102	It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.	Johnny Knoxville	trust
4,306	26,860	Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.	Brian Tracy	future
4,810	22,043	To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.	Horace	fear
3,421	33,702	Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.	Julian Castro	health
6,131	23,207	I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.	Brendan Behan	food

6,043

69,398

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

Rachel Stevens

travel

3,658

43,023

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Euripides

love

8,040

50,531

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras

music

1,594

38,040

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Hugo Pratt

imagination

1,069

13,913

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott

death

1,606

72,248

I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.

Ryan Gosling

war

5,820

11,640

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Joseph Stalin

courage

5,959

43,700

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

Emma Watson

love

426

25,981

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

Ellen DeGeneres

funny

11,581

49,491

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

LL Cool J

movies

6,893

41,179

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

Picabo Street

learning

5,496

44,907

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

Steve Jobs

medical

7,166

42,702

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Al Lopez

life

2,947

14,795

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Irv Kupcinet

diet

6,553

66,924

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead

technology

9,829

69,273

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Charles Horton Cooley

travel

7,974

41,382

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

Koichi Tanaka

learning

6,397

53,443

I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.

Ariel Sharon

peace

7,552

35,745

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

Lee Child

home

3,543

26,066

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

Larry David

funny

8,679

42,084

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Steve Jobs

life

377

58,679

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Ernest Holmes

religion

3,961

4,736

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Ambrose Bierce

attitude

5,534

6,191

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

best

979

52,799

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Phyllis McGinley

peace

2,278

58,549

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine

religion

5,159

42,719

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Walt Disney

life

2,476

14,482

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Walter Gropius

design

4,435

30,855

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

great

11,122

68,079

We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.

John Hawley

thankful

650

31,273

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer

great

580

1,005

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Audrey Hepburn

alone

9,924

26,875

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

future

10,416

51,865

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

John B. S. Haldane

nature

10,025

69,563

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

Dan Hawkins

travel

637

20,749

My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

Blake Lively

family

1,032

51,756

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Marquis de Sade

nature

4,411

4,420

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osler

art

4,920

21,730

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andre Gide

fear

5,017

62,986

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

Chili Davis

society

2,189

13,265

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

David Gallagher

dating

7,435

72,015

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

George Will

war

5,487

7,462

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

business

3,766

10,230

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

communication

4,831

27,459

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.

Daniel H. Wilson

future

11,384

51,240

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

nature

2,310

37,998

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

Rhona Mitra

imagination

7,891

10,418

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Steve Jobs

computers

1,614

50,735

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

Billy Corgan

music

602

33,289

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Natalie Imbruglia

health

10,829

64,908

I have the strength to endure it all.

Moshe Dayan

strength

10,540

47,323

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

money

2,457

50,283

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Gustav Mahler

music

4,851

65,358

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

success

10,353

28,812

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

good

7,649

6,800

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Donald Rumsfeld

best

9,193

65,967

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

Paula Radcliffe

success

3,374

27,695

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Dorothy Malone

gardening

4,075

60,326

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

Donnie Wahlberg

respect

9,060

63,977

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

Gabrielle Union

sports

888

22,187

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

Jeff Bridges

fear

3,900

34,947

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

Billy Sunday

home

9,964

51,479

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

William Blake

nature

1,738

23,600

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Padma Lakshmi

food

7,919

33,156

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Mary Baker Eddy

health

5,270

20,339

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

Snoop Dogg

family

11,402

18,277

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Curt Siodmak

experience

8,701

39,249

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

James Thurber

knowledge

2,876

18,690

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Mira Sorvino

failure

5,628

22,384

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

Steve Irwin

fear

2,219

47,126

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

Eric West

mom

10,327

51,960

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Martha Graham

nature

7,672

65,558

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Robert Foster Bennett

success

6,929

75,480

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Norman Vincent Peale

christmas

10,852

47,954

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

Neal Boortz

money

3,545

72,873

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Sidney Lanier

wisdom

8,180

70,159

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.

Colin Mochrie

trust

2,587

70,921

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

truth

3,839

55,294

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

Sarah Palin

politics

787

29,940

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

John Quincy Adams

government

2,110

51,595

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Harry Crews

nature

6,700

34,186

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Richard M. Nixon

history

3,306

47,262

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

money

2,038

67,282

Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.

Barry Diller

technology

1,929

56,141

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

Winona Ryder

positive

1,849

39,889

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Henry James Sumner Maine

knowledge

10,294

71,390

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

David Duchovny

truth

747

60,767

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Margaret Chase Smith

romantic

6,636

23,566

When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

Rachael Ray

food

8,071

1,583

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Dan Rather

alone

4,344

37,970

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

Matthew Bourne

imagination

8,686

27,047

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

Dan Quayle

future

2,692

36,847

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

humor

4,112

17,590

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

Steve Martin

experience

4,590

59,751

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

Dennis Prager

respect

9,288

70,102

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.

Johnny Knoxville

trust

4,306

26,860

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

future

4,810

22,043

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.

Horace

fear

3,421

33,702

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

Julian Castro

health

6,131

23,207

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Brendan Behan

food