c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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10,478	59,114	Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.	John Comenius	religion
3,302	55,694	The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.	Big Boi	politics
11,708	68,538	And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.	Clint Eastwood	time
1,493	52,203	Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!	Taslima Nasrin	nature
4,604	50,986	Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.	Ville Valo	music
11,579	6,316	The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.	Henry David Thoreau	best
2,523	43,728	The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	love
4,629	64,179	I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.	Tipper Gore	sports
3,236	8,610	If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.	Chris Evans	car
9,640	26,526	Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.	Olivia Munn	funny
449	21,541	I didn't get into skating to be famous.	Eric Heiden	famous
3,838	54,647	Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.	Maxwell Bodenheim	poetry
655	75,761	To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.	Wendell Phillips	fathersday
6,702	21,744	Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.	Brendan Francis	fear
4,365	53,283	We will not have peace by afterthought.	Norman Cousins	peace
10,021	33,054	For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.	Nathan Deal	health
7,466	20,702	All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.	Amy Winehouse	family
10,946	921	My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.	Anna Kendrick	age
1,796	13,627	He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.	Horace	death
6,592	3,480	We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.	Arthur Erickson	architecture
3,716	6,789	Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.	Christopher Morley	best
8,154	68,394	Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.	Theodore Roosevelt	time
1,355	14,974	The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.	Jim Goad	diet
944	42,932	Love is a game that two can play and both win.	Eva Gabor	love
5,931	546	We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.	Jock Sturges	age
5,495	44,862	Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.	Marcel Proust	medical
5,469	64,573	Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.	Blaise Pascal	strength
1,004	35,961	It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.	Robert H. Schuller	hope
3,713	35,453	Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.	Hakeem Olajuwon	home
1,283	23,360	I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.	Jonathan Safran Foer	food
9,272	15,151	Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.	James Allen	dreams
5,835	69,538	If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.	Nelson A. Miles	travel
11,153	31,140	The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.	Bertrand Russell	great
542	52,656	Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.	Arthur Schopenhauer	patriotism
4,231	22,393	Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.	Jonathan Sacks	fear
3,280	26,976	What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.	Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton	future
2,716	35,673	I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.	Quincy Jones	home
10,301	34,805	The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.	Ron Chernow	history
2,091	25,473	Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.	Samuel Richardson	friendship
6,298	24,114	To understand is to forgive, even oneself.	Alexander Chase	forgiveness
8,028	52,039	The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.	Edward Gibbon	nature
3,290	64,087	As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.	Lee Haney	sports
4,336	16,414	We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.	Donna Shalala	education
6,660	1,402	On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.	Janis Joplin	alone
9,390	55,403	Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.	Caroline Kennedy	politics
6,830	20,738	The family is the school of duties - founded on love.	Felix Adler	family
8,125	72,591	The most dangerous food is wedding cake.	James Thurber	wedding
11,514	49,438	I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.	Lana Parrilla	movies
6,523	20,190	Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.	Gracie Allen	family
10,504	38,809	It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.	Lucien Bouchard	intelligence
11,434	14,126	Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.	Ingrid Newkirk	death
6,826	2,022	The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!	Shawn Johnson	amazing
9,248	67,033	Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.	Alan Kay	technology
5,910	56,174	The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.	David Kay	positive
8,850	26,171	It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?	Eddie Van Halen	funny
1,510	64,070	Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?	Lisa Loeb	sports
5,018	34,564	India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.	Anita Desai	history
195	52,616	To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.	George Santayana	patriotism
5,554	5,716	Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.	Emily Mortimer	beauty
7,449	58,226	The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.	John Moody	relationship
8,327	51,329	Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.	Hans Christian Anderson	nature
7,689	58,492	Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.	Ronald Reagan	religion
845	58,746	Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!	O. Henry	religion
6,997	1,861	I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.	Maria Mitchell	alone
8,874	10,665	I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'	Demetri Martin	cool
9,595	57,013	Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.	Eric Cantor	power
9,766	20,591	By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.	Glenn Beck	family
10,869	14,606	Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.	Jil Sander	design
6,606	21,131	And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.	Shaquille O'Neal	famous
2,459	55,717	A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.	Howard Fineman	politics
7,924	49,918	Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.	Joseph Barbera	movies
7,921	58,646	All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.	Honore de Balzac	religion
11,614	42,155	Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.	John Wayne	life
10,962	62,604	If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.	Reed Hastings	smile
1,645	67,493	It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.	Lee Scott	technology
10,375	32,457	I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.	Giorgio Armani	happiness
3,199	68,737	Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.	Samuel Beckett	time
3,051	50,804	What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.	Karl Lagerfeld	music
9,918	55,304	My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.	Kid Rock	politics
8,201	40,911	The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.	Jeffrey Kluger	learning
3,044	52,667	Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.	James Bryce	patriotism
10,089	40,067	We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.	Barack Obama	leadership
748	16,208	I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.	Cate Blanchett	education
5,180	34,339	History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.	Will Durant	history
11,662	646	My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.	Alvin Toffler	age
9,969	50,693	I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.	Brian Eno	music
5,438	64,861	Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.	Jack LaLanne	strength
10,660	58,078	I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.	Danny Glover	relationship
9,417	24,248	I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.	Dan Quayle	freedom
4,786	25,131	I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.	Paul Walker	freedom
10,207	30,867	Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.	Vincent Van Gogh	great
7,487	65,665	Success is survival.	Leonard Cohen	success
3,338	53,654	I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.	Thurston Moore	peace
2,585	43,622	Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.	W. H. Auden	love
2,071	38,532	Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.	Edward Thorndike	intelligence
4,911	54,684	Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.	Karl Shapiro	poetry
3,282	68,132	Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.	Yevgeny Yevtushenko	time
728	66,328	In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.	Frances E. Willard	sympathy
10,578	33,330	No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.	Lindsey Graham	health
8,617	10,993	I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.	Sean Parker	cool

10,478

59,114

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

John Comenius

religion

3,302

55,694

The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.

Big Boi

politics

11,708

68,538

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Clint Eastwood

time

1,493

52,203

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Taslima Nasrin

nature

4,604

50,986

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

Ville Valo

music

11,579

6,316

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Henry David Thoreau

best

2,523

43,728

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

love

4,629

64,179

I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

Tipper Gore

sports

3,236

8,610

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

Chris Evans

car

9,640

26,526

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

Olivia Munn

funny

449

21,541

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

Eric Heiden

famous

3,838

54,647

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

Maxwell Bodenheim

poetry

655

75,761

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Wendell Phillips

fathersday

6,702

21,744

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Brendan Francis

fear

4,365

53,283

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

peace

10,021

33,054

For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

Nathan Deal

health

7,466

20,702

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

family

10,946

921

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Anna Kendrick

age

1,796

13,627

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

death

6,592

3,480

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Arthur Erickson

architecture

3,716

6,789

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Morley

best

8,154

68,394

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

time

1,355

14,974

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

Jim Goad

diet

944

42,932

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

love

5,931

546

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Jock Sturges

age

5,495

44,862

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Marcel Proust

medical

5,469

64,573

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Blaise Pascal

strength

1,004

35,961

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Schuller

hope

3,713

35,453

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Hakeem Olajuwon

home

1,283

23,360

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

food

9,272

15,151

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Allen

dreams

5,835

69,538

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

Nelson A. Miles

travel

11,153

31,140

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell

great

542

52,656

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Arthur Schopenhauer

patriotism

4,231

22,393

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

Jonathan Sacks

fear

3,280

26,976

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

future

2,716

35,673

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Quincy Jones

home

10,301

34,805

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

Ron Chernow

history

2,091

25,473

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Samuel Richardson

friendship

6,298

24,114

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Alexander Chase

forgiveness

8,028

52,039

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon

nature

3,290

64,087

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.

Lee Haney

sports

4,336

16,414

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

Donna Shalala

education

6,660

1,402

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

alone

9,390

55,403

Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.

Caroline Kennedy

politics

6,830

20,738

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Felix Adler

family

8,125

72,591

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber

wedding

11,514

49,438

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

Lana Parrilla

movies

6,523

20,190

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Gracie Allen

family

10,504

38,809

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

Lucien Bouchard

intelligence

11,434

14,126

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

Ingrid Newkirk

death

6,826

2,022

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

Shawn Johnson

amazing

9,248

67,033

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Alan Kay

technology

5,910

56,174

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

David Kay

positive

8,850

26,171

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Eddie Van Halen

funny

1,510

64,070

Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?

Lisa Loeb

sports

5,018

34,564

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

Anita Desai

history

195

52,616

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

George Santayana

patriotism

5,554

5,716

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

Emily Mortimer

beauty

7,449

58,226

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

John Moody

relationship

8,327

51,329

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Anderson

nature

7,689

58,492

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Ronald Reagan

religion

845

58,746

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

O. Henry

religion

6,997

1,861

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Maria Mitchell

alone

8,874

10,665

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

Demetri Martin

cool

9,595

57,013

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Eric Cantor

power

9,766

20,591

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

Glenn Beck

family

10,869

14,606

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

Jil Sander

design

6,606

21,131

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

Shaquille O'Neal

famous

2,459

55,717

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Howard Fineman

politics

7,924

49,918

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Joseph Barbera

movies

7,921

58,646

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore de Balzac

religion

11,614

42,155

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

John Wayne

life

10,962

62,604

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Reed Hastings

smile

1,645

67,493

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

Lee Scott

technology

10,375

32,457

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

Giorgio Armani

happiness

3,199

68,737

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Samuel Beckett

time

3,051

50,804

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Karl Lagerfeld

music

9,918

55,304

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

Kid Rock

politics

8,201

40,911

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

Jeffrey Kluger

learning

3,044

52,667

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

James Bryce

patriotism

10,089

40,067

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Barack Obama

leadership

748

16,208

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Cate Blanchett

education

5,180

34,339

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

Will Durant

history

11,662

646

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

Alvin Toffler

age

9,969

50,693

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Brian Eno

music

5,438

64,861

Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

Jack LaLanne

strength

10,660

58,078

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Danny Glover

relationship

9,417

24,248

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Dan Quayle

freedom

4,786

25,131

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

Paul Walker

freedom

10,207

30,867

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

great

7,487

65,665

Success is survival.

Leonard Cohen

success

3,338

53,654

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.

Thurston Moore

peace

2,585

43,622

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

love

2,071

38,532

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Edward Thorndike

intelligence

4,911

54,684

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Karl Shapiro

poetry

3,282

68,132

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

time

728

66,328

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Frances E. Willard

sympathy

10,578

33,330

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

Lindsey Graham

health

8,617

10,993

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.

Sean Parker

cool