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
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We drank a toast to innocenceWe drank a toast to now.And tried to reach beyond the emptinessBut neither one knew how.
Dan Fogelberg
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Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.
Hafez al-Assad
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Oscar Wilde
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I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be the artist to throw everybody under the bus. I don't spend lots of money on houses or lots of cars, but I do spend money on security and they never find me.
Lady Gaga
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I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.
Lisa Marie Presley
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.
Ha-Joon Chang
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The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
Dalai Lama
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Brené Brown
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The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
Charles Eames
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
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But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
Alice Walker
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
Octavia E. Butler
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman
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I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf
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The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
Barbara Pym
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Kindness eases change.
Octavia E. Butler
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When I'm content with nothing is when I'm content with everything.
Antonio Porchia
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Anne Lamott
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
Simone de Beauvoir
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When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
Chris O'Dowd