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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Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
Jonathan Swift -
There are different Klans just like there are different fraternities in college.
David Duke -
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
Jim Elliot -
Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.
Sandra Bullock -
The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
Angela Davis -
I don't work with a lot of preparation. I think very well on my feet, and I'm very good when the pressure is on.
Paula Malcomson
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.
Claudia Kennedy -
They have a much more positive view of the country than I do.
Brian Reynolds Myers -
The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
A. E. Housman -
You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.
Mac Miller -
The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.
Claudia Kennedy
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If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
Brian Hugh Warner -
When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.
Dennis Farina -
I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.
James Patterson -
Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
Vijender Singh -
The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.
Lesley Manville
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Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.
Honore de Balzac -
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.
Martin Luther -
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
Stephen Graham Jones -
'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge -
What's cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.
Amy Purdy -
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
Oscar Wilde