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2,827	75,113	If you want peace work for justice.	Pope Paul VI	work
8,589	19,366	Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.	Jerry Saltz	faith
1,196	31,953	Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.	Alphonse Karr	happiness
5,698	67,242	I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.	Ulrich Beck	technology
7,464	62,805	The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.	Pope John Paul II	society
5,481	18,455	The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.	H. L. Mencken	failure
10,745	33,420	The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.	Tim McGraw	health
8,875	67,328	Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.	Jurgen Habermas	technology
9,010	66,602	I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.	Arthur Smith	teacher
262	56,008	Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.	Len Wein	positive
1,057	36,936	In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee - or laugh.	Robert Orben	humor
2,090	19,336	It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.	Quentin Tarantino	faith
16	32,544	Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.	Tom Wilson	happiness
6,041	30,755	College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.	Ruby Wax	graduation
11,508	1,264	Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.	Peabo Bryson	alone
10,321	18,337	One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.	Abraham Maslow	failure
882	52,629	It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.	Arthur C. Clarke	patriotism
7,269	30,506	I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates.	Eliot Spitzer	government
2,988	63,308	When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.	Lauryn Hill	society
11,215	39,555	Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.	F. H. Bradley	knowledge
11,097	54,970	In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.	Winston Churchill	politics
1,856	72,636	I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.	Nia Vardalos	wedding
10,092	56,571	What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.	C. S. Lewis	power
2,023	37,903	Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.	Jack Prelutsky	imagination
3,008	44,075	Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.	Robert Louis Stevenson	marriage
3,141	15,853	If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.	Heinrich Heine	education
4,461	61,286	I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.	Dianne Wiest	sad
8,766	60,873	Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.	Greta Garbo	sad
1,701	72,067	Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.	Tony Blair	war
5,887	18,827	So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.	Allen Tate	failure
1,499	52,275	Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.	Robert Cormier	parenting
1,011	59,250	Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.	Andrew Greeley	religion
10,462	5,791	As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?	Ellen Page	beauty
3,621	1,144	This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	alone
10,784	66,194	Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.	Thomas Aquinas	sympathy
10,696	29,628	Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.	Rita Mae Brown	good
1,915	17,980	The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.	Daisaku Ikeda	experience
1,060	29,460	I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.	P. J. O'Rourke	good
4,677	11,421	It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.	Buddy Rice	cool
6,405	13,128	I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?	Kristin Davis	dating
1,277	65,690	We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.	Marco Rubio	success
10,012	25,743	He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.	Zsa Zsa Gabor	funny
11,391	41,654	The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.	Conrad Black	legal
667	46,132	Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.	Thomas Fuller	men
3,515	17,077	Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.	Patricia Ireland	equality
1,482	67,174	The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.	Steve Ballmer	technology
9,491	19,472	Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.	Tony Campolo	faith
2,530	52,499	Patience was not my strong point.	Lauren Bacall	patience
1,937	22,563	I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.	Tom Brady	fear
7,703	70,974	A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.	Joseph Addison	truth
9,594	27,220	A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.	Barbara Jordan	future
5,294	25,853	I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.	Emo Philips	funny
3,942	70,642	A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.	Charles Spurgeon	truth
1,442	13,587	It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.	Elisabeth Kubler-Ross	death
216	68,925	I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.	Kate Bosworth	time
10,192	20,029	Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.	Bo Bennett	family
3,902	43,521	There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.	Edgar Allan Poe	love
2,574	41,937	When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.	Eleanor Roosevelt	life
10,595	75,353	The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.	Rush Limbaugh	work
9,019	72,183	I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.	George McGovern	war
4,086	24,621	Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.	Benjamin Carson	freedom
3,379	21,044	Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.	Al Goldstein	famous
2,900	31,706	Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.	Calvin Coolidge	great
2,957	70,985	The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.	Thomas Aquinas	truth
4,041	69,084	Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	travel
4,551	3,286	We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.	W. Somerset Maugham	anniversary
7,146	48,001	It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.	Doris Lessing	money
2,972	24,603	Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.	Bill Moyers	freedom
2,591	64,282	Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.	Marion Motley	sports
10,637	6,352	A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.	H. L. Mencken	best
6,902	28,726	We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	good
8,348	40,319	Leadership is something I was born with.	Carmelo Anthony	leadership
3,370	8,159	Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.	Anna Chlumsky	business
6,245	18,375	Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.	Knute Rockne	failure
10,978	36,638	The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.	Curt Schilling	hope
10,933	45,756	I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.	Elizabeth Taylor	men
1,279	66,949	Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.	Andy Grove	technology
5,512	70,224	We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!	Paul Prudhomme	trust
2,638	18,482	Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.	J. K. Rowling	failure
3,530	64,434	It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.	William Sloane Coffin, Jr.	sports
7,966	48,079	Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?	Dennis Miller	money
5,775	29,374	If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.	H. L. Mencken	good
2,565	51,597	A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.	Margaret Cavendish	nature
3,248	38,896	I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.	Jeff Foxworthy	jealousy
4,278	60,266	If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.	Richard Petty	respect
11,635	72,494	No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.	Muqtada al Sadr	war
10,734	7,150	When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?	Lisa Loeb	birthday
9,358	72,664	I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!	Carrie Preston	wedding
10,460	29,502	I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.	Katy Perry	good
5,480	23,776	I get way too much happiness from good food.	Elizabeth Olsen	food
2,636	72,079	You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.	Jessica Savitch	war
2,368	45,213	Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.	Dante Alighieri	men
10,174	73,980	Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.	Coretta Scott King	women
839	38,620	It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.	Bob Barr	intelligence
5,541	10,867	My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.	Josh Radnor	cool
2,822	53,497	Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.	Darrell Issa	peace
3,591	19,018	When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.	Joel Osteen	faith
2,073	41,704	It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.	Jon Porter	legal
2,621	13,075	I always told my dad I'd play professional football.	Anthony Doerr	dad
346	65,000	In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.	Jim Costa	strength

2,827

75,113

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

work

8,589

19,366

Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

Jerry Saltz

faith

1,196

31,953

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Alphonse Karr

happiness

5,698

67,242

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

Ulrich Beck

technology

7,464

62,805

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

society

5,481

18,455

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

H. L. Mencken

failure

10,745

33,420

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Tim McGraw

health

8,875

67,328

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

Jurgen Habermas

technology

9,010

66,602

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

Arthur Smith

teacher

262

56,008

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

Len Wein

positive

1,057

36,936

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee - or laugh.

Robert Orben

humor

2,090

19,336

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

Quentin Tarantino

faith

16

32,544

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Tom Wilson

happiness

6,041

30,755

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Ruby Wax

graduation

11,508

1,264

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

Peabo Bryson

alone

10,321

18,337

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Abraham Maslow

failure

882

52,629

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

patriotism

7,269

30,506

I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates.

Eliot Spitzer

government

2,988

63,308

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

Lauryn Hill

society

11,215

39,555

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

F. H. Bradley

knowledge

11,097

54,970

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill

politics

1,856

72,636

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

Nia Vardalos

wedding

10,092

56,571

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

C. S. Lewis

power

2,023

37,903

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

Jack Prelutsky

imagination

3,008

44,075

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

marriage

3,141

15,853

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Heinrich Heine

education

4,461

61,286

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Dianne Wiest

sad

8,766

60,873

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Greta Garbo

sad

1,701

72,067

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Tony Blair

war

5,887

18,827

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Allen Tate

failure

1,499

52,275

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Robert Cormier

parenting

1,011

59,250

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

Andrew Greeley

religion

10,462

5,791

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

Ellen Page

beauty

3,621

1,144

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

alone

10,784

66,194

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Thomas Aquinas

sympathy

10,696

29,628

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown

good

1,915

17,980

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Daisaku Ikeda

experience

1,060

29,460

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

P. J. O'Rourke

good

4,677

11,421

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.

Buddy Rice

cool

6,405

13,128

I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?

Kristin Davis

dating

1,277

65,690

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

Marco Rubio

success

10,012

25,743

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

funny

11,391

41,654

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

Conrad Black

legal

667

46,132

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Thomas Fuller

men

3,515

17,077

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Patricia Ireland

equality

1,482

67,174

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Steve Ballmer

technology

9,491

19,472

Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.

Tony Campolo

faith

2,530

52,499

Patience was not my strong point.

Lauren Bacall

patience

1,937

22,563

I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.

Tom Brady

fear

7,703

70,974

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Joseph Addison

truth

9,594

27,220

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Barbara Jordan

future

5,294

25,853

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

Emo Philips

funny

3,942

70,642

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles Spurgeon

truth

1,442

13,587

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

death

216

68,925

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

Kate Bosworth

time

10,192

20,029

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.

Bo Bennett

family

3,902

43,521

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Edgar Allan Poe

love

2,574

41,937

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

life

10,595

75,353

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

Rush Limbaugh

work

9,019

72,183

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

George McGovern

war

4,086

24,621

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Benjamin Carson

freedom

3,379

21,044

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Al Goldstein

famous

2,900

31,706

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Calvin Coolidge

great

2,957

70,985

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Thomas Aquinas

truth

4,041

69,084

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

travel

4,551

3,286

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

W. Somerset Maugham

anniversary

7,146

48,001

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Doris Lessing

money

2,972

24,603

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Bill Moyers

freedom

2,591

64,282

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

Marion Motley

sports

10,637

6,352

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

H. L. Mencken

best

6,902

28,726

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

good

8,348

40,319

Leadership is something I was born with.

Carmelo Anthony

leadership

3,370

8,159

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

Anna Chlumsky

business

6,245

18,375

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

failure

10,978

36,638

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

Curt Schilling

hope

10,933

45,756

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Elizabeth Taylor

men

1,279

66,949

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

Andy Grove

technology

5,512

70,224

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Paul Prudhomme

trust

2,638

18,482

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J. K. Rowling

failure

3,530

64,434

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

sports

7,966

48,079

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

Dennis Miller

money

5,775

29,374

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

H. L. Mencken

good

2,565

51,597

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Margaret Cavendish

nature

3,248

38,896

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Jeff Foxworthy

jealousy

4,278

60,266

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

Richard Petty

respect

11,635

72,494

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

Muqtada al Sadr

war

10,734

7,150

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

Lisa Loeb

birthday

9,358

72,664

I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!

Carrie Preston

wedding

10,460

29,502

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

Katy Perry

good

5,480

23,776

I get way too much happiness from good food.

Elizabeth Olsen

food

2,636

72,079

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

Jessica Savitch

war

2,368

45,213

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dante Alighieri

men

10,174

73,980

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Coretta Scott King

women

839

38,620

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Bob Barr

intelligence

5,541

10,867

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

Josh Radnor

cool

2,822

53,497

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

Darrell Issa

peace

3,591

19,018

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Joel Osteen

faith

2,073

41,704

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.

Jon Porter

legal

2,621

13,075

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

Anthony Doerr

dad

346

65,000

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

Jim Costa

strength