2390 Quotes

#1. 92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

Maggie Nelson

#2. Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Judith Viorst

#3. You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Tertullian

#4. I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

Martha Graham

#5. Torture usually gets you whatever you want to hear. And people are usually much more forgiving of this method. Mostly because they're never quite sure any of it really happened.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#6. I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

Leo Burnett

#7. It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.

Bill Loguidice

#8. I would show up at any venue that had an open mic.

Ludacris

#9. I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#10. My heroes were always soccer players.

Ronaldinho

#11. You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

Carly Fiorina

#12. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil?

W.E.B. Du Bois