Every accepted public quote

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achi...”

“Gradually, we have become each other's weather.”

“You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life.”

“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with...”

“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.”

“Friends are thieves of time.”

“I've been up in the Arctic Circle where they have hockey rinks that don't have any heating. So it's - 40 C outside, it's - 55 inside. Or there's a social centre but no budget for anybody to...”

“I've had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I'm not scared about getting old. It's what's inside that makes us beautiful on the outside.”

“It's important that the sexes understand each other.”

“Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.”

“What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood - the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we...”

“A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away,...”

“Heads fall off from time to time Some of them old, some of them young The conductor hollers into the crowd: 'Keep moving forward to the back!”

“Don't let your genie (inner potential) wait for ever”

“Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.”

“In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.”

“Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.”

“The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority f...”

“I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite t...”

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

“War never leaves, where it found a nation.”

“My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, 'I almost didn't recognize you without a hat on', I could have bought the...”

“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”

“I don't really put cars in my videos because I'm always flying or on a tour bus.”

“I formed Humble Pie when I was only 18. We were one of the first 'supergroups,' with Steve Marriott of The Small Faces on guitar and Greg Ridley of Spooky Tooth on bass. With Humble Pie, I t...”

“A feasible North Korea strategy must consider how to reassure China that our objectives on the peninsula are not aggressive.”

“The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being u...”

“My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.”

“I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to...”

“The Tae-Bo guy has a good body on him. I believe in evolution as far as lifting and training and building muscle. I was doing functional movement before CrossFit was ever a thing. I was play...”

“The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.”

“Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.”

“You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.”

“I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.”

“It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.”

“I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.”

“My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.”

“I clung to each word that fell from his lips like a spider to a web.”

“There is always someone better than you and if not you should think so.”

“From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don'...”

“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”

“That 'Rollercoaster' album cover was very prophetic in its own way. My career has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows.”

“The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.”

“In life you need to take initiatives in order to get what you want and to be where you want to be. Not everything will be given to you.”

“As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated....”

“Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.”

“Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power t...”