17249 Quotes

#1. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs.

Timothy Ferriss

#3. I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

Jimmy Buffett

#4. When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

Sam Trammell

#5. If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.

Joseph Grew

#6. I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

Little Richard

#7. Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be listening.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

Joachim Peiper

#9. I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50.

Mitch Hedberg

#10. Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist?

Alexandre Dumas

#11. There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Bell Hooks

#12. I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things ... One wants to open the story, not close it.

Anish Kapoor

#13. Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.

Emily Bronte