People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I’ve known many who have suffered worse and been cut off from life much more…and they’ve managed to lead happy contented lives. It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy. —Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced More about this quote Tags: life danger happiness world suffering anger grudge contentment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge teaching readiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: potential perception identity promise gender Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have to learn to be unafraid when you’re a nobody, because you’re going to be really fucking afraid when you’re a somebody and all the lights are on you. —Lady Gaga More about this quote Tags: attention fear fame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: humor deception lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. —Johnny Carson More about this quote Tags: politics accomplishment democracy USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: humanity life meaning science universe tragedy farce Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you. —Jay Crownover in Jet More about this quote Tags: love life relationships change will Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. —George Halas More about this quote Tags: pleasure work preference Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. —Penn Jillette More about this quote Tags: privacy anonymity internet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination. —Bill Watterson More about this quote Tags: feminism fun discrimination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Tags: work belief luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. —Dag Hammarskjöld More about this quote Tags: action reputation fate destiny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. —Henri Nouwen More about this quote Tags: love fear friendship intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: music taste preference noise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email