Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author
Famous Quotes
I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Buddy Hackett
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Topic: Custom
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Topic: Opportunity
Author: Gloria Estefan
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.
Topic: Society
Author: Eric Hoffer
DEATH LEAVES A HEARTACHE NO ONE CAN HEAL, LOVE LEAVES LIVES A MEMORY NO ONE CAN STEAL
Topic: Bereavement
Author: Headstone In Irish Cemetary
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Topic: Literature
Author: Denis Diderot
For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Topic: Love
Author: Rosemonde Gerard
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Mark Twain
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Augusta Jane Evans
The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
Topic: Politics
Author: Larry Hardiman
Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 He was but a heathen that said, If God love a man, He takes him young out of this world; and they were but heathens, that observed that custom. to put on mourning when their sons were born, and to feast and triumph when they died. But thus much may we learn from these heathens, that if the dead, and we, be not upon one floor, nor under one story, yet we are under one roof. We think not a friend lost, because he has gone into another room, nor because he has gone into another land: and into another world, no man has gone; for that Heaven, which God created, and this world, is all one world... I spend none of my faith, I exercise none of my hope, in this, that I shall have my dead raised to life again. This is the faith that sustains me, when I lose by the death of others, or when I suffer by living in misery myself: that the dead and we are now all in one Church, and at the resurrection, shall be all in one Choir.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Donne
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Topic: Destiny
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
Topic: Greatness
Author: Horace
Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, It is not night if Thou be near; O may no earth-born cloud arise To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Keble
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Topic: History
Author: Francois Mitterrand
It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Topic: Opportunity
Author: Whitney Young Jr
Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.
Topic: Tardiness
Author: Sigourney Weaver
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
Topic: All About the Self
Author: Clifford Geertz
That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: W Clement Stone