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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I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.
Emil Cioran -
I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.
Amanda Marcotte -
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Socrates -
Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.
Asif Ali Zardari -
I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.
Joaquin Phoenix -
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
David Henry Hwang
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
Tamsin Egerton -
Many people know how to get money, but few know how to keep it. Wise investments are always based on information, Johannes, so the more you know, the better.
Louis L'Amour -
Too much is never enough.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
Yahya Jammeh -
A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain.
Marcel Proust -
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.
Thomas Sowell
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill -
Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.
Ian Hunter -
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
Louise Brown -
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
Laura Hillenbrand -
Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.
Ann Romney -
Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Number one is my faith, number two my family, number three is my friends, and number four, my fans.
Jim Kelly -
Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
William James -
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
G. I. Gurdjieff -
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
Oscar Wilde -
I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
Donatella Versace -
I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.
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