Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. —Simeon Strunsky More about this quote Tags: quotations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present? —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: past perception age present Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. —Mandy Hale in The Single Woman More about this quote Tags: women men busyness attraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. —John F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: life hope strength prayer Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: love beauty superficiality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: violence competence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. —Leonard Louis Levinson More about this quote Tags: optimism pessimism philosophy perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. —Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar More about this quote Tags: crying sadness tears fullness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A woman is like a tea bag — you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: strength risk danger women pressure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. —Errol Flynn More about this quote Tags: money wealth habit problems income habits Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. —William Wrigley Jr. More about this quote Tags: value necessity agreement business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. —Jerry Seinfeld More about this quote Tags: books thinking culture bookstores Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. —Eddie Izzard More about this quote Tags: history time perception Europe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. —William Ralph Inge More about this quote Tags: reality belief faith values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email