Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
Popular quotes of the
-
I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.
Lara Fabian
-
You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
Alexander the Great
-
More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem.
Donald Miller
-
I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
Mahesh Bhupathi
-
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.
Vinod Khosla
-
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Socrates
-
It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
Ted Cruz
-
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.
Robert H. Schuller
-
He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.
J. D. Salinger
-
I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
Karl Urban
-
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin
-
Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
Ernest Hemingway
-
I stopped doing romantic comedies. I just stopped. They're terrible. They're bad. They're not funny and so they shouldn't be a romantic comedy because most of the time they're not romantic. They shouldn't be called romantic comedy.
Sandra Bullock
-
I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
Garth Nix
-
Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.
Keith Ellison
-
When I was happily married and found myself pregnant, I just thought that this would be just the next, normal chapter. I was absolutely thrilled. So what a surprise it was when it turned out to be the hardest thing I've ever done.
Valerie Plame
-
There’s nothing like having your girlfriend talk in geological time to make you feel insignificant.
Ben Aaronovitch
-
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
W. H. Auden
-
My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
Kendrick Lamar
-
We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
Naomi Judd
-
The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
Victor Hugo
-
Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining
Michael Arrington
-
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
Fiona Apple
-
I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
Fiona Apple
-
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
Immanuel Kant