Top 100 Are The Quotes
#1. The most romantic love stories are the ones where nobody ever gets what they want because they are always pretending they don't want it.
Chelsea Martin
#2. Success cannot come like osmosis ; hardwork , commitment and faithfulness are the common ingredients .
Osunsakin Adewale
#3. Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.
Chuck Klosterman
#4. Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.
Stephen Jay Gould
#5. There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?
Meshell Ndegeocello
#6. You are the effect of your story, that's all.
Byron Katie
#7. You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.
Ricky Mathieson
#8. In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?
Ellen Goodman
#9. Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.
Walter E. Williams
#10. If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.
Philip Freneau
#11. The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.
Charles Spurgeon
#12. Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor.
Atom Egoyan
#13. There's roads, and there's roads,
And they call. Can't you hear it?
Roads of the earth
And roads of the spirit
The best roads of all
Are the ones that aren't certain.
One of those is where you'll find me
'Til they drop the big curtain.
Bruce Cockburn
#14. Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold on. Those are the climbs that force us to become better athletes and grow as climbers.
Chris Sharma
#15. The nation's image has become more like a chameleon - accepting whatever trend marketers concoct. Gone are the days of reverencing a holy God in the church or within ourselves. Yet the Bible tells us, "Happy is the man who is always reverent" (Proverbs 28:14 NKJV).
Billy Graham
#16. A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.
Horatio Nelson
#17. Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million people, a nearly 300% increase. We now lock up one out of every hundred adults, far more than any other country.
Piper Kerman
#18. Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really have to work. Children, as an audience, are very inspirational for me.
Jan Brett
#19. The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end.
Chris Matakas
#20. Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.
Gertrud Von Le Fort
#21. And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.
Maureen Dowd
#22. In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.
John Connolly
#23. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.
Eddie Adams
#24. The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H.G.Wells
#26. The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
Jonathan Coe
#27. The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.
Tom Seaver
#28. I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.
Miranda Lambert
#29. I'm pretty sure his kisses are the best form of dieting there is, because every time his lips touch mine, I forget all about the fact that I'm starving.
Colleen Hoover
#31. We are the measure of all things.
And the beauty of our creation, of our art
is proportional to the beauty of ourselves
of our souls.
Jonas Mekas
#32. Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.
Harvey MacKay
#33. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
Michael Morpurgo
#34. I was a gentleman over everything. An ass-appreciating gentleman. We are the finest kind of man. I should open my own ass-appreciating gentleman's club one day.
Karina Halle
#35. Customers don't distinguish between you and the company you work for. To the customer's way of thinking, you are the company.
Ron Zemke
#36. Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.
Paula Heller Garland
#37. We are the wise. Do not envy us - We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom - We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.
Lois Duncan
#38. You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.
Sathya Sai Baba
#39. The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
Dorothea Lange
#40. We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!
Charles Darwin
#41. No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
Victor Hugo
#42. You are the only you God made ... God made you and broke the mold.
Max Lucado
#43. The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. ("Fear")
P.C. Wren
#44. The first two letters of the name Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Its symbol is , a planetary monogram. But Lowell's lifelong love was the planet Mars. He was electrified by the announcement in 1877 by an Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, of canali on Mars.
Carl Sagan
#45. I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
Pablo Picasso
#46. Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.
Ralph McGehee
#47. The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.
Robin S. Sharma
#48. These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#49. Kings are the slaves of history. History, that is, the unconscious, swarmlike life of mankind, uses every moment of a king's life as an instrument for its purposes.
Leo Tolstoy
#50. Father God, I ask You to lead me when I'm blinded by ways I have not known, along unfamiliar paths please guide me; Lord, turn the darkness into light before me and make the rough places smooth. I pray these are the things You will do; I know You will not forsake me. (Isa. 42:16)
Beth Moore
#51. Cats are the flowers in all animals kept at home.
Jade King
#52. The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.
Benjamin Creme
#53. I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.
Blake Shelton
#54. You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. Look, people go on and on about how size isn't everything, and how the bigger they are, the harder they fall, but the people who say that probably haven't ever faced down a charging demon-bear so big it should have been on a drive-in movie screen.
Jim Butcher
#56. Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
Anne Lamott
#57. The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
Rupert Sheldrake
#58. In fact, these terms devised by Franklin are the ones we still use today, along with other neologisms that he coined to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor.
Walter Isaacson
#59. Jos de Vries
U Are The Greatest Gift God Gave me
Petra
Petra Hermans
#60. Positive words are the glue that holds relationships together.
Tom Rath
#61. I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!
Louisa May Alcott
#62. In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Althea Gibson
#64. Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?
Shirley Jackson
#65. The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.
Barack Obama
#66. If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.
Allan Savory
#67. Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."
Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
Donald Miller
#68. All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.
Jonathan Mayhew
#70. Prove that you are my daughter, prove that you are mine. Prove to me that you are the blood of the dragon. Prove you are worthy of that mark on your skin.
Melissa De La Cruz
#71. Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.
John Lancaster Spalding
#72. 18 but these men u lie in wait for their own blood; they u set an ambush for their own lives. 19 v Such are the ways of everyone who is w greedy for unjust gain; x it takes away the life of its possessors.
Anonymous
#73. Sometimes the little things are the big things.
Karen Hawkins
#74. Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve.
Ilana Mercer
#75. Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them
consciously and unconsciously
your style will develop.
Dorianne Laux
#76. The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform,
Mohammad Khatami
#77. The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.
Peter Jackson
#78. All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
Hermann Hesse
#79. What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
Igor Stravinsky
#80. Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
P.T. Barnum
#81. Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
Henry James
#82. The older we get, the more we understand that the women who know and love us - and love us despite what they know about us - are the joists that hold up the house of our existence.
Anna Quindlen
#83. Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
Epicurus
#84. Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September.
Mary Virginia Terhune
#85. My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.
W.S. Merwin
#86. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make
and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.
Ken Robinson
#87. I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?
Rick Perlstein
#88. A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#89. All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.
Masayoshi Son
#90. These are the sports, the offthrows, of the universe instead of the species; these are the weird children of the lust of the spheres.
Charles G. Finney
#91. The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.
Sean Hannity
#92. The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.
B.C. Forbes
#93. Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.
Steve Coleman
#94. Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#95. The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe
Jasper Fforde
#96. From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'
Enrico Colantoni
#97. My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.
Chris Isaak
#98. What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?
John Powell
#99. Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.
Pico Iyer
#100. I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years
it took the experience of lived time
to realize that they really are the same thing.
Elif Batuman
