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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

— Maggie Gallagher

Love

A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.

— Roger Daltrey

Wisdom

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

— John Adams

Education

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

— Josephine Baker

Wisdom

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

— Britt Ekland

Wisdom

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

— Dale Carnegie

Hope

A man never understands how anthropomorphic he is.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

— Eddie Van Halen

Wisdom

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

— Adam Hamilton

Love

I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

— Kathy Baker

Wisdom

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

— Stephen Cambone

Life

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

— Anne Frank

Happiness

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

— M. H. Abrams

Life

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

— Charles Spurgeon

Wisdom

formation, et par conséquent non stabilisées encore.

— Gustave Le Bon

Wisdom

Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer.

— James Hamilton

Courage

respect, mais de l'extorquer.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Wisdom

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

— Jane Austen

Life

I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.

— Will Smith

Success

If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.

— Tyler Hamilton

Success

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

— Alexandre de Betak

Wisdom

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

— Johnny Cash

Education

The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

— Dean Cain

Wisdom

I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.

— Iain De Caestecker

Love

I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.

— Lucy Hale

Truth

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

— Emily Bronte

Love

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

— Richard M. Nixon

Hope

I can't sing or dance.

— Joel Edgerton

Wisdom

I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

— Josh Gad

Success

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

— Napoleon Hill

Success

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

— Felix Adler

Freedom

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Friendship

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

— Harry Hamlin

Wisdom

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

— Mark Edwards

Wisdom

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

— Andy Warhol

Love

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

— George Eliot

Life

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

— Virginia Satir

Wisdom

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

— Kobe Bryant

Wisdom

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

— Charles Dickens

Happiness

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

— Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

Hope

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

— Andy Rooney

Wisdom

existent aussi peu pour le second que les couleurs pour les aveugles.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Wisdom

The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable.

— Diane Mott Davidson

Success

I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

— Allan Hamilton

Love

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

— Mark Twain

Wisdom

nous-mêmes (max. 119, I 123).

— François de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom

Für sein Tun und Lassen darf man keinen andern zum Muster nehmen;

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Wisdom

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

— Rex Stout

Wisdom

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

— John W. Gardner

Wisdom

Never put a sock in a toaster.

— Eddie Izzard

Wisdom

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

— Thomas A. Edison

Success

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

— Cicero

Friendship

Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom

Religion is not a perpetual moping over good books. Religion is not even prayer, praise, holy ordinances,—these are necessary to religion—no man can be religious without them. But religion is mainly and chiefly the glorifying God amid the duties and trials of the world; the guiding of our course amid adverse winds and currents of temptation by the sunlight of duty and the compass of Divine truth, the bearing up manfully, wisely, courageously, for the honor of Christ, our great Leader, in the conflict of life.

— John Caird

Courage

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

— Franz Halder

Wisdom

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

— George Ball

Wisdom

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

— Bryan Adams

Wisdom

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Happiness