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3,762 | 58,971 | There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. | Eugene Ionesco | religion |
5,034 | 23,273 | I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. | Ornette Coleman | food |
8,576 | 48,434 | I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off. | Samantha Morton | morning |
9,345 | 32,787 | Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. | William Samuel Johnson | happiness |
11,090 | 33,285 | Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people. | Carl Lewis | health |
10,889 | 57,011 | Words derive their power from the original word. | Meister Eckhart | power |
11,803 | 12,235 | My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.' | Pink | dad |
1,202 | 6,564 | You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest. | Denis Waitley | best |
5,290 | 16,064 | You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. | Donna Shalala | education |
9,555 | 20,285 | Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family. | Shaquille O'Neal | family |
18 | 34,664 | Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics. | Sloane Crosley | history |
4,685 | 71,932 | War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. | Gilbert Parker | war |
5,390 | 32,177 | Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. | Andre Maurois | happiness |
10,657 | 55,891 | For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week. | John Sununu | positive |
1,861 | 2,156 | I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed. | Lena Dunham | amazing |
4,673 | 36,962 | And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit. | Bobby Knight | humor |
4,471 | 19,788 | No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part. | Tony Visconti | faith |
1,604 | 65,113 | I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect. | Melanie Griffith | strength |
8,603 | 15,670 | Am I athletic? In my dreams. | Hugh Bonneville | dreams |
1,140 | 37,284 | All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended. | Kurt Sutter | humor |
4,160 | 39,279 | In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. | Alfred North Whitehead | knowledge |
3,728 | 31,504 | Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. | Glenn Hughes | great |
4,504 | 74,871 | Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. | Louisa May Alcott | work |
6,236 | 22,023 | As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. | Alice Walker | fear |
10,867 | 57,236 | The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. | Franklin Pierce | power |
387 | 26,311 | Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes. | Julie Walters | funny |
3,897 | 65,597 | For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. | Walter Scott | success |
4,193 | 72,421 | I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. | Werner Herzog | war |
8,240 | 40,188 | Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them. | Daisaku Ikeda | leadership |
4,314 | 74,618 | Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. | Nelson Mandela | work |
4,557 | 33,606 | As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves. | Jan Schakowsky | health |
431 | 56,160 | You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life. | Sheryl Swoopes | positive |
5,110 | 37,542 | Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. | Mason Cooley | imagination |
2,688 | 71,819 | It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. | Murray Rothbard | war |
6,796 | 34,789 | Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. | Saul Williams | history |
7,270 | 18,597 | The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female. | Anna Quindlen | failure |
10,776 | 68,987 | No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. | Robert Southey | time |
1,419 | 75,699 | Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood. | Whitley Strieber | christmas |
609 | 36,586 | One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me. | Alison Sweeney | hope |
11,179 | 35,879 | Hope will never be silent. | Harvey Milk | hope |
5,458 | 46,924 | I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown! | Brooke Burns | mom |
2,326 | 38,439 | Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. | Alan Kay | intelligence |
11,807 | 11,987 | To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled. | Dale Murphy | courage |
9,482 | 55,123 | I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. | Christopher Hitchens | politics |
4,470 | 1,472 | A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality. | Yoko Ono | alone |
5,898 | 19,176 | Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. | Mitt Romney | faith |
10,122 | 42,765 | You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. | Rick Warren | life |
4,357 | 31,137 | An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. | Thomas Fuller | great |
8,599 | 17,746 | As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. | Edward Witten | experience |
434 | 73,625 | Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | women |
7,522 | 8,377 | Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car. | Laurence J. Peter | car |
1,993 | 1,315 | And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast. | Max Muller | alone |
6,006 | 2,615 | Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes. | Melanie Laurent | amazing |
5,266 | 24,507 | America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. | John W. Gardner | freedom |
5,978 | 24,935 | Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. | Walter Lippmann | freedom |
5,826 | 66,694 | Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. | David Guterson | teacher |
7,439 | 56,567 | Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. | P. J. O'Rourke | power |
10,751 | 48,016 | Human beings are much bigger than just making money. | Muhammad Yunus | money |
11,523 | 56,856 | The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. | Francis Bacon | power |
10,131 | 71,273 | You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. | Mary J. Blige | truth |
3,612 | 17,429 | Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. | Steve Jobs | experience |
9,420 | 51,485 | To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. | Plato | nature |
8,992 | 38,144 | The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. | Mark Hopkins | inspirational |
5,293 | 56,401 | I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that. | Katie Ledecky | positive |
5,433 | 67,349 | We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere. | Major Owens | technology |
9,771 | 46,047 | It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. | Jean-Paul Sartre | men |
5,322 | 4,170 | You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. | Steve Martin | art |
6,691 | 18,282 | We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario. | Ron Chernow | experience |
7,133 | 7,964 | Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names. | Charles Barkley | business |
5,707 | 22,735 | A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. | Clarence Day | finance |
10,795 | 16,159 | I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise. | Susan Orlean | education |
6,791 | 65,882 | I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. | Lee Ann Womack | success |
3,265 | 38,381 | It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. | Stephen Hawking | intelligence |
5,477 | 62,545 | You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it. | Laura Linney | smile |
10,594 | 111 | Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. | Albert Einstein | age |
804 | 63,104 | Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. | Dennis Prager | society |
10,691 | 63,586 | My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. | John Woolman | society |
8,663 | 37,456 | The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. | Henry Ford | imagination |
6,859 | 9,836 | People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. | William Hague | change |
6,202 | 11,380 | Atlanta is an incredibly cool city. | Andrew Lincoln | cool |
1,199 | 19,587 | Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work. | Faith Evans | faith |
4,658 | 58,678 | In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. | Chinua Achebe | religion |
2 | 66,799 | I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style. | Julie London | teacher |
2,509 | 56,686 | We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | power |
3,025 | 36,795 | I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. | Tadao Ando | hope |
616 | 19,677 | A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. | Conrad Black | faith |
7,002 | 68,556 | I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. | Charlie Chaplin | time |
6,942 | 25,382 | There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. | Henry Ward Beecher | friendship |
7,750 | 34,925 | I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home. | W. C. Fields | home |
6,072 | 53,355 | Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am. | Gil Scott-Heron | peace |
737 | 42,368 | A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | life |
7,808 | 5,479 | The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. | Havelock Ellis | beauty |
8,116 | 73,342 | I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him. | Jesse Helms | wisdom |
9,310 | 62,873 | I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society. | Mike Tyson | society |
318 | 28,915 | If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. | Oscar Wilde | good |
7,203 | 30,293 | The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. | Madalyn Murray O'Hair | government |
5,523 | 48,817 | I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up. | Sean Hayes | morning |
7,315 | 53,502 | We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. | King Hussein I | peace |
4,360 | 26,667 | There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. | George Carlin | future |
498 | 15,672 | In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams. | Laura Miller | dreams |