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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Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Socrates -
I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it's amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, 'This is it; my life is a train wreck.' And then you bounce back again.
Kurt Vile -
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
Carlos Ghosn -
It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right.
Adolf Hitler -
I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think I would be able to play a slave. I said, 'Oh, please.' I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn't too intelligent to play a slave.
Courtney B. Vance -
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
Lydia Davis
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg -
You search for images and stories and movies and music from people that look like you and sound like you and speak like you because you want to feel like, 'Oh, if they can do it, so can I.' There's a little bit of that need for validation, especially when you're younger and trying to look to someone to look up to.
Kelly Marie Tran -
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie Robinson -
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle -
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 -
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
David Lindsay-Abaire
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In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion.
Camille Henrot -
If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that.
Elizabeth Marvel -
I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.
Joe Montana -
It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set going I don't know. And then half an hour later you're walking back.
Ewan McGregor -
Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.
Molly Ivins -
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
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The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.
John F. Kennedy -
Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.
Philip Roth -
The ivyed oaks dark shadow fallsOft picking up with wondering gazeSome little thing of other daysSaved from the wreck of time.
John Clare -
The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease.
David Perlmutter -
Carbs are devastating for the brain.
David Perlmutter -
If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.
Janet Malcolm
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The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.
Jacqueline Woodson -
It was a difficult road for What Is This. Their business did not come easy. Eventually, the lack of success forced different directions.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam