Famous Quotes By Karl Marx

 

1. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
2. Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
3. Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
4. Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
5. Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
6. Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
7. Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
8. History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
9. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
10. In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
11. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
12. It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
13. It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
14. Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
15. Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
16. Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
17. Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
18. On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
19. Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
20. Religion is the opium of the masses.
21. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
22. Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
23. Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
24. The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
25. The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
26. The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
27. The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
28. The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
29. The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
30. The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
31. The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
32. The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
33. The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
34. We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Famous Quotes By David Duchovny

 

1. At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.
2. Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
3. Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
4. I don't make decisions based on money.
5. I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
6. I drive an electric car.
7. I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
8. I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.
9. I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
10. I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.
11. I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
12. I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.
13. I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
14. I think Polanski's an amazing director.
15. I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
16. I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
17. I'm turning into a stricter dad.
18. In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.
19. It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
20. I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
21. I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'
22. My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
23. People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
24. People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.
25. People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.
26. The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.
27. There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
28. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.
29. Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
30. You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.
31. You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

Famous Quotes By Gloria Steinem

 

1. A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
2. Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
3. Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
4. Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
5. For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
6. God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
7. Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
8. Hope is a very unruly emotion.
9. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
10. I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.
11. If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
12. If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
13. If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
14. It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
15. It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
16. I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
17. Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
18. Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
19. Most women are one man away from welfare.
20. Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
21. No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
22. Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
23. Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
24. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
25. The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
26. The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
27. The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.
28. We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
29. We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
30. Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Famous Quotes By Elizabeth Gilbert

 

1. And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
2. As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well.
3. I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
4. I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.
5. I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
6. I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society,
7. I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.
8. I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
9. I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.
10. Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
11. Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
12. Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
13. My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.
14. Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
15. Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.
16. There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
17. You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.

Famous Quotes By Johnny Depp

 

1. Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
2. As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
3. For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
4. France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
5. I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.
6. I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
7. I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
8. I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
9. If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a differ
10. It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.
11. Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
12. Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
13. Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.
14. The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
15. The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
16. The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
17. There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
18. There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
19. There's no truth anymore.
20. You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
21. You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

Famous Quotes By Anne Lamott

 

1. A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
2. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
3. I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
4. I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
5. Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
6. Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
7. Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
8. Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
9. Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
10. The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
11. The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
12. The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
13. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
14. When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
15. You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
16. Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Famous Quotes By Michael Bloomberg

 

1. Government is dysfunctional.
2. Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.
3. I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
4. I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.
5. I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
6. If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
7. If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing,
8. I'm trying to change the culture in New York City that's hard enough!
9. Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
10. It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
11. No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
12. Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
13. People use so much more health care when they live longer.
14. The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
15. There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
16. These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
17. This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
18. This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable it's not morally right it's just not going to happen.
19. We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.
20. You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

Famous Quotes By Harry Connick, Jr.

 

1. A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
2. Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.
3. I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.
4. I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
5. I have those dreams that you can't put into words.
6. I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.
7. I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.
8. I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.
9. I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
10. I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.
11. I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.
12. I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
13. It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
14. I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.
15. Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
16. My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.
17. My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.
18. My Dad is my hero.
19. My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.
20. 'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
21. There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.
22. We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
23. We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.
24. Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
25. You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

Famous Quotes By Pope John Paul II

 

1. As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
2. Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
3. Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
4. Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
5. Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
6. I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
7. I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
8. I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
9. Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
10. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
11. Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
12. Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
13. Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
14. The future starts today, not tomorrow.
15. 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.
16. The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
17. The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
18. There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
19. To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
20. Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
21. Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
22. War is a defeat for humanity.
23. What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
24. When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
25. Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Famous Quotes By W. Somerset Maugham

 

1. A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
2. Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
3. Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
4. At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
5. Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
6. Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
7. Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
8. Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
9. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
10. If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
11. If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
12. Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
13. In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
14. It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
15. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
16. It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
17. It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
18. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
19. Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
20. Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
21. Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
22. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
23. Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
24. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
25. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
26. Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
27. The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
28. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
29. The crown of literature is poetry.
30. The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
31. The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
32. There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
33. 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.
34. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
35. When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
36. You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
37. You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Famous Quotes By Eric Hoffer

 

1. Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
2. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
3. Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
4. Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
5. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
6. In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
7. It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
8. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
9. It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
10. It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
11. It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
12. It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
13. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
14. Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
15. Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
16. One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
17. Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
18. Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
19. Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
20. Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
21. The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
22. The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
23. The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
24. The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
25. The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
26. The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
27. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
28. There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
29. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
30. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
31. To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
32. We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
33. We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
34. We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
35. We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
36. When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
37. Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Famous Quotes By J. K. Rowling

 

1. Death is just life's next big adventure.
2. Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
3. Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
4. Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
5. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
6. 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
7. Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
8. His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
9. However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
10. I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
11. I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
12. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
13. I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
14. I received free health care.
15. I think you're working and learning until you die.
16. I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
17. I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
18. If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.
19. I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
20. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
21. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
22. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
23. Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
24. No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
25. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
26. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
27. The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
28. The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
29. The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
30. The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
31. The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
32. To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
33. Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
34. You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
35. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Famous Quotes By Thomas A. Edison

 

1. Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
2. Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
3. Great ideas originate in the muscles.
4. Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
5. I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
6. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
7. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
8. I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
9. I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
10. I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
11. It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
12. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
13. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
14. One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
15. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
16. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
17. Religion is all bunk.
18. Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
19. Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
20. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
21. The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
22. The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
23. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
24. There is no substitute for hard work.
25. To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
26. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
27. To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
28. Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Famous Quotes By T. S. Eliot

 

1. A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
2. A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
3. All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
4. Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
5. As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.Business today consists in persuading crowds.
6. Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
7. For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
8. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
9. Home is where one starts from.
10. I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
11. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
12. I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
13. I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
14. I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
15. It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
16. Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
17. Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
18. Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
19. Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
20. Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
21. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
22. The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
23. The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
24. There is no method but to be very intelligent.
25. This love is silent.
26. We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
27. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
28. Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
29. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
30. You are the music while the music lasts.

Famous Quotes By Ron Paul

 

1. 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
2. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
3. Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
4. As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
5. Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
6. Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
7. Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
8. I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
9. I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
10. I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.
11. In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
12. Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
13. Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
14. Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
15. The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
16. There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
17. There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
18. There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
19. Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
20. Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
21. To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
22. War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
23. What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'
24. When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
25. When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.