c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
— Janis Karpinski
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
— Janis Karpinski
With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.
— Bryan Fuller
The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.
— George Wallace
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
— Andrea Dworkin
I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.
— Leonard Boswell
The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
— Leonard Boswell
The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.
— Leonard Boswell
Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.
— Jerry Cantrell
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
— Vernor Vinge
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
— Vernor Vinge
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
— Dennis C. Blair
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.
— Dennis C. Blair
Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI.
— Dennis C. Blair
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
— Lactantius
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
— Tanith Lee
The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
— John Sherman Cooper
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.
— Marvin Hamlisch
In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.
— James Marsters
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.
— William A. Dembski
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
— Michael J. Saylor
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
— Phaedrus
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
— John Ciardi
Intelligence is not a science.
— Frank Carlucci
Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
— Frank Carlucci
And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.
— Frank Carlucci
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
— Krista Tippett
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
— Frank Carlucci
I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.
— Frank Carlucci
We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.
— Stephen Cambone
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.
— Stephen Cambone
One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.
— Stephen Cambone
But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.
— Stephen Cambone
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.
— Roger Wicker
I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
— Charles McCarry
Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.
— Charles McCarry
I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.
— Charles McCarry
I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.
— Simon Conway Morris
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
— Remy de Gourmont
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
— Carl Levin
When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
— Carl Levin
Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
— Carl Levin
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
— Ferdinand Mount
I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
— Clare Short
I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.
— Matt Reeves
I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.
— George Woodcock
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
— Don Herold
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
— Don Herold
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
— George Bancroft
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
— James Whistler
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
— Sri Aurobindo
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
— Charles Williams
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
— Linda Hunt
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
— E. F. Benson
It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure out of delving into their minds. There's rarely emptiness, and there is almost always deep intelligence.
— Nnedi Okorafor
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
— Gloria Naylor
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
— Comte de Lautreamont
I love smart and curious people. I value intelligence in my friends and relationships.
— Kerry Bishe
I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
— Cofer Black
I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.
— Brad Delson
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
— Jacques Maritain
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
— Margaret Anderson
The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
— David Hunt
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
— Betty Dodson
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
— James C. Maxwell
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
— Raymond Holliwell
It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
— Seymour Hersh
I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.
— Gemma Whelan
Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
— Ted Bell
I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'
— Daniel Keyes
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
— Ernest Newman
What suprised me most about the real Gordon Selfridge was actually about his sons, Ralph and Oliver. They were both highly respected in their fields, influencing Information Technology and Robotics deeply. Oliver Selfridge has even been referred to as 'The Father of Machine Perception,' being a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence.
— Greg Austin
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
— James Clavell
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
— Desmond Tutu
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
— Michael J. Fox
Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.
— Irina Shayk
I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
— Lil' Kim
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
— Kofi Annan
At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through.
— Kim Kardashian
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
— Margaret Mead
Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.
— Lex Luger
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
— Joyce Meyer
My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
— Ronaldinho
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
— Christina Rossetti
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
— Joseph Joubert
I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.
— Jose Carreras
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
— David Ogden Stiers
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
— Barbara Bush
Family is the most important thing in the world.
— Princess Diana
Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.
— Paul Pierce
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
— Lee Iacocca
Children are the keys of paradise.
— Eric Hoffer
I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.
— Ben Roethlisberger
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
— Albert Hammond, Jr.
Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.
— Romeo Miller
My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.
— Dawn French
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
— Barbara Bush
I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.
— Travis Barker
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.
— Elliott Erwitt
I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
— Emma Roberts
When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival.
— Dean Ornish
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
— Rod Stewart
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
— Barbara Bush
I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.
— Bonnie Tyler
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.
— Mark Zuckerberg
I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.
— Reba McEntire
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.
— Brad Goreski
You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.
— Lilly Singh
Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
— Jennifer Ellison
Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others each batch has its own characteristics and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor. 
— Marge Kennedy
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
— Pope John Paul II
Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with.
— Tom Hodgkinson
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
— Charlize Theron
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
— Desmond Tutu
I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem.
— Anne Frank
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
— Joaquin Phoenix
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
— Jon Corzine
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
— George Bernard Shaw
My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's anything better.
— Anne Wojcicki
I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball's taught me on and off the court. For the people that I've been able to meet through the game of basketball.
— Stephen Curry
When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
— Guy Lafleur
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
— Rodney Dangerfield
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
— Buddy Hackett
Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.
— John Lasseter
In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It's about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.
— David Beckham
It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.
— Steve McFadden
My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
— J. Cole
There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can't tell my family, just as far as how I'm feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are really, really important.
— Jonathan Levine
I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.
— Aly Raisman
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
— Debi Mazar
Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.
— Luanne Rice
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
— Pope John Paul II
I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do... and pay my bills.
— Gina Rodriguez
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.
— Thomas Sowell
I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.
— Deborah Raney
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
— Khalil Gibran
Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.
— Susan Lieberman
Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
— Barbara Bush
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.
— Kristen Bell
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
— Hillary Clinton
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
— Leo Tolstoy
People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.
— Kylie Jenner
Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
— Jennifer Aniston
I do get to have my normal childhood. I just love to get together with my friends and family and have a good time.
— Austin O'Brien
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
— Willie Stargell
I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.
— George Jones
I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.
— Meek Mill
I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.
— Marcus Samuelsson
Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent - perhaps a dozen or more each year.
— Joseph Bruchac
If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can't go wrong. So just believe in yourself, do you your thing, and stay strong in what you believe in.
— Roman Reigns
I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.
— Li Na
I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.
— Rachel Brosnahan
You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dress for a granddaughter, creating a beautiful birthday party. It's all part of life.
— Martha Stewart
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
— Khalil Gibran
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
— Frank Sinatra
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
— Bob Ehrlich
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
— Mario Batali
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
— Imelda Marcos
Me and my family are straight. I am blessed. I am alive, man, and I am healthy, and that is the only thing that matters. Me and my family, everybody else, it really doesn't matter because why do you care about somebody talking negative about you if they don't know you?
— Allen Iverson
I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.
— Ariana Grande
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.
— Ann Hood
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
— Darren Aronofsky
Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
— Chris Brown
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?
— Shah Rukh Khan
Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
— Gabriel Medina
I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.
— Ryan Zinke
I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.
— Lil Uzi Vert
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
— Margaret Thatcher
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
— Daisaku Ikeda
I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.
— Kenneth Branagh
I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.
— Mike Birbiglia
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
— Nelson Mandela
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
— Vince Vaughn
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
— Bill Murray
Kids can learn a lot about necessities and wants by recognizing what people live without. A common routine, but one that should not be overlooked, is having a family donation to a charity for those less fortunate. Ask your kids to search for items, toys, or clothes that they no longer use and contribute those items a collection box.
— Alexa Von Tobel
I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
— Zara Larsson
Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.
— Suze Orman
There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.
— Gordon Ramsay
Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.
— Chris Noth
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
— Charles Eastman
I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.
— Caterina Murino
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
— Lionel Messi
I have a very, very good life. I'm grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future.
— Raquel Welch
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
— Douglas Adams
Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.
— Bobby Heenan
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
— Tupac Shakur
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
— Bjork
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
— George Carlin
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
— Pope John XXIII
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
— Stephen King
I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy. 
— Kate Klise
I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.
— Judi Dench
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.
— Mike Rowe
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
— Chanakya
Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.
— Les Brown
Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.
— John James Audubon
For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.
— Beyonce Knowles
Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends.
— Marcus Samuelsson
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.
— Lawrence Kohlberg
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
— Pope John Paul II
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
— Khaled Hosseini
I just want to be successful. I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'I want to win a Grammy' or whatever; if that comes, that's awesome. But I just want to be successful and provide for my whole family and get my family out the hood.
— Lil Uzi Vert
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
— Samantha Stosur
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.
— John O'Donohue
What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple meal.
— Kim Yuna
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
— Jeff Foxworthy
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents.
— Gordon Neufeld
There is a core value I wanted to illuminate: No matter what kind of family you have - straight, gay, married, single parent, separated, no kids, two kids, 20 kids, whatever - we all go through the human comedy. But if the bonds are strong enough, and the desire is there, you can get to the other side, still together and still a family.
— Lisa Cholodenko
I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.
— Herbert Hoover
Actors are one family over the entire world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
— Erma Bombeck
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.
— Jose Mourinho
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
— Harry Houdini
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
— John Lydon
I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... In my family, that was just stuff we did. That's just the way it was.
— Paul Walker
I am blessed to have married the man that God sent me. He's loving, compassionate, strong and supportive of my children, family and career. I look forward to our lives together.
— Monica
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.
— Tom Vilsack
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
— Dennis Prager
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.
— Jane Smiley
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
— Walt Disney
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
— Charles R. Swindoll
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
— Martin Short
My priority is to hang out with the ones I love - my family, my loved ones.
— Cote de Pablo
My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.
— Cory Booker
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
— Charles Eastman
To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
— Morgan Wootten
When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.
— Kylie Jenner
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
— Narendra Modi
I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
— Monica Bellucci
Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
— Lauren Ambrose
I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
— Mos Def
God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
— Joel Osteen
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
— Kerry Washington
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
— LaToya Jackson
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
— Douglas Coupland
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
— Gordon Ramsay
The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
— Mencius
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
— Jerry Falwell
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
— Melissa Gilbert
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.
— Adrian Grenier
I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.
— Tom Hardy
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
— Michelle Dockery
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'
— David Rubenstein
The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.
— Kate Winslet
I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
— Julia Roberts
I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty and the Beast,' and after both of them I came home and reenacted the entirety of the shows on my living room table for my family and friends. I started doing that after every show I saw until I actually did my first youth production when I was 5.
— Max Schneider
The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.
— Rick Pitino
I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.
— Doreen Cronin