Top 100 But That Quotes
#1. I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
Yulia Tymoshenko
#2. Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.
Barbara Jordan
#3. I hate talking about my height, because I don't feel like a tall person ... When I see a tall woman, I'm always slightly like, 'Whoa.' It looks weird, but that could be because of my complex about it, my worry over whether it's womanly to be that tall.
Miranda Hart
#4. It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.
Sara Maitland
#5. What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.
Christina Romer
#6. Some people take fashion very seriously ... but that's not right ... Fashion should be fun!
Carolina Herrera
#7. That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#8. A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.
Daron Malakian
#9. But that wasn't how I rolled. Prolonged irrationality wasn't in my wheelhouse. Recrimination was not my homeboy.
Penny Reid
#10. The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point.
Tanya Huff
#11. A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all.
J.D. Salinger
#12. We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
Joe Baca
#13. I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
Mahathir Mohamad
#14. Maturity would have been a big help, but that didn't come until later.
Sue Grafton
#15. I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.
Andre Balazs
#16. The creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety than evidence.
Natasha Pulley
#17. Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.
Jay L. Garfield
#18. I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.
Matt Mickiewicz
#19. Sometimes I wish I could sleep forever, but that would mean dreaming forever ... and I just can't risk that.
AnnaLisa Grant
#20. There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics, but that feels real - like you're playing a real person who has real thoughts and feelings, and it's very grounded. I started to watch all comedy through that prism.
Andy Daly
#21. They called it the Great War, but that implied worthiness and grandeur, not violence and helplessness and the utter waste and devastation our country, our city, our people endured.
M.J. Rose
#22. We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
David Elliott
#23. I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
Oscar Isaac
#24. Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question.
Anne Sexton
#25. It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.
Max Weber
#26. I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
George W. Bush
#27. I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.
Zachary Cole Smith
#28. This is a special date but that was a special time
Anamika Mishra
#29. It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters - especially now.
Daniel H. Pink
#30. You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs get tough
But that will never be enough
You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs get tough
But that will never be enough
Lorde
#31. But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.
Lauren Oliver
#32. People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#33. I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.
Steve Lonegan
#34. What is failure? We can't possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that's because they're judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what's a success and what's a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself.
Gary Zukav
#35. Always keep in mind that training stimulates growth, but that actual growth takes place while you are resting.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#36. You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.
Bryan Fuller
#37. No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong.
Robert Harris
#38. Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn't mean that they've changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn't mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.
Daniel Kahneman
#39. Indeed, this is how 99 percent of people select their jobs: pay, work environment, hours. But that's the point. Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.) As
Paul Kalanithi
#40. The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it?
Robert Louis Stevenson
#41. It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.
Narendra Modi
#42. As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
Pete Townshend
#43. The monster was crumbling, shrinking, revealing a man. Only a man. A traitor and a murderer certainly, but that made him less not more.
Jonathan Renshaw
#44. Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
Charles Dickens
#45. I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.
Chris Milk
#46. Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.
Sebastian Coe
#47. Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.
Pope Pius X
#48. Not thinking, I reach my hand across and flick him. I might not want to be here, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna sit idly by and watch some jackass disrespect my mom.
Melyssa Winchester
#49. I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.
David Byrne
#50. People change,feelings change, but that doesn't mean that the love once shared wasn't true and real. It simply means that sometimes when people grow, they grow apart
Scott Neustadter
#51. Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
Al-Ghazali
#52. Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy.
Charles Manson
#53. It would be nice to believe that love should be dished out in a fair way so that everyone got some. But that wasn't how it was going to be for me.
Margaret Atwood
#54. Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. Tiberias." I've never said his real name before. It doesn't suit him. It doesn't suit us. But that's who he is. "Choose me.
Victoria Aveyard
#56. I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
Natasha Henstridge
#57. The Church may have a building, but that is not its place. The building may be the church's location, but its space is in the shared humanity of its persons.
Andrew Root
#58. But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.
Hilary Boyd
#59. Yes, man is mortal, but that would still be just a minor problem. The bad thing is that he's sometimes suddenly mortal, and that's the whole point! And he can't possibly say what he's going to be doing the same evening.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#60. In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#61. I believe that there is truth to be found inside every person, but that very few people find it because it is dark inside, and deeply hidden, and the trees grow thickly.
Kate Elliott
#62. You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
Anne Parillaud
#63. If you saw me without concealer, you would see that I have raccoon eyes. And I think my forehead is too small. I am not quintessentially beautiful. I am photogenic, but that's only because I have learned how to make the best of what I've got from the make-up artists I have worked with.
Shilpa Shetty
#64. The pleasant thing about fighting with the Spaniards, Mr Ellis,' said Jack, smiling at his great round eyes and solemn face, 'is not that they are shy, for they are not, but that they are never, never ready.
Patrick O'Brian
#65. It's empty. Duane swore harsh enough to make a sailor blush, calling into question not only the suspect's parentage, but that somehow duck's were involved.
Andrew Grey
#66. Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.
Brandon Flowers
#67. I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.
Kelly LeBrock
#68. The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
Bee Wilson
#69. God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Robert South
#70. If he'd [Jesus] been a little more concerned for his own safety and well being he may have toned things down a little bit and probably at best he'd be remembered as a Rabbi who said some cool things but that nobody really reads anymore. There's tons of them.
Brad Warner
#71. My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying. So i went downstairs, picked up a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and showed her what real fear was.
Robert Clark
#72. It was not so much that he was shut out, but that she was trapped inside.
Kristen Heitzmann
#73. Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
Elbert Hubbard
#74. I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.
Gary Oldman
#75. The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
Vernor Vinge
#76. Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.
Jay Asher
#77. One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#78. My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.
Craig Venter
#79. The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.
Aaron Funk
#80. Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#81. When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless,
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen,
I might not be the same, but that's not important.
No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it.
Macklemore
#82. There's always competition, especially in the EDM scene, but that keeps me motivated and focused. Everybody is really friendly though. I always enjoy seeing other guys at gigs or festivals. So yeah, there is competition but there are also lots of good vibes.
Martin Garrix
#83. I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.
Britt Ekland
#84. I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#85. Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day. Killers may be disturbed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't tell right from wrong or are compelled to maim or murder.
Park Dietz
#86. Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.
Martin Luther
#87. I don't care if you eat worms and cardboard; if you eat 35% fewer calories, you will lose weight and your cholesterol levels will improve50 in the short run, but that is not to say that worms and cardboard form a healthy diet.
T. Colin Campbell
#88. Once you've proved to [the players] that you can help them become better players, you've earned their respect. They respect if you've achieved at a high level in this league, but that's not what they respect you for as a coach.
Brendan Daly
#89. It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.
Darren McCarty
#90. The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking
#91. But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
Seamus Heaney
#92. I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.
Christina Hendricks
#93. We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
Sean Combs
#94. The world didn't like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.
Ted Dekker
#95. I've always tried to walk a line between being incisive and acerbic, but not mean. Sometimes I'm going to tip over the line a little bit, but that's usually a line I try not to cross.
Mark Leibovich
#96. Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
Ioan Gruffudd
#97. You know, very few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.
Charles Baxter
#98. Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
Dick Cavett
#99. I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.
LeBron James
#100. Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.
Eric Drooker