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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The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.
Patrice O'Neal -
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
David Lindsay-Abaire -
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
Lydia Davis -
I have no other balm to sweeten the bitterness of a harsh and melancholy life than the satisfaction given by the conviction of having always done what I believed to be my duty. God grant that I can say the same at the hour of my death.
Apolinario Mabini -
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle
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Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?
Bobcat Goldthwait -
If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.
Ric Flair -
Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
C. S. Lewis -
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Walter Wriston -
There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.
Oprah Winfrey -
If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.
Janet Malcolm
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I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
Rae Carson -
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
Sam Abell -
I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.
David Henry Hwang -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.
Steven Curtis Chapman -
If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that.
Elizabeth Marvel
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I grew up on a farm in South Africa, so I’ve always been surrounded by animals. I was raised by a mother who always had great compassion and respect toward animals. It was instilled in me. I grew up that way. So when I see dogs or other animals suffer, it’s just been something close to my heart.
Charlize Theron -
I overthink everything, and one thing I find difficult is to actually be in the moment.
Jorja Smith -
Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber -
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
Carlos Ghosn -
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
Adam Beach