Quotes for May 150 quotes · 41 authors

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• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 1 reads

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• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  5.0 · 12 votes · 28 reads

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• A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 60 reads

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• A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 62 votes · 151 reads

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• As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 110 reads

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• Character is a victory, not a gift.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 41 votes · 145 reads

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• Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 30 votes · 176 reads

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• Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 15 votes · 185 reads

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• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 195 reads

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• Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 158 reads

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• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.7 · 10 votes · 139 reads

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• Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 89 reads

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• How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  5.0 · 6 votes · 156 reads

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• I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 200 reads

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• I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 143 reads

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• I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 61 reads

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• I love New York.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 9 reads

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• I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.4 · 32 votes · 70 reads

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• I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.4 · 62 votes · 13 reads

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• I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.2 · 53 votes · 195 reads

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• If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 90 reads

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• In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

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  Laurence J. Peter

  WriterCanadian1919 · 20th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 7 reads

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• It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 159 reads

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• Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 31 reads

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• Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  3.8 · 55 votes · 66 reads

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• Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.7 · 52 votes · 42 reads

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• Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 25 votes · 189 reads

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• Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  5.0 · 29 votes · 53 reads

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• Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 85 reads

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• My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 15 votes · 182 reads

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• Never follow the crowd.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.3 · 32 votes · 36 reads

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• No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 22 votes · 70 reads

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• No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 102 reads

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• Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  3.5 · 45 votes · 45 reads

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• Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 57 votes · 168 reads

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• Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  4.5 · 29 votes · 200 reads

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• Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 124 reads

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• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  4.6 · 36 votes · 198 reads

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• The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.6 · 46 votes · 198 reads

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• The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 199 reads

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• The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 56 reads

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• The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 57 votes · 104 reads

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• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.6 · 53 votes · 150 reads

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• There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 62 reads

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• There is no growth without discontent.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 13 votes · 54 reads

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• True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 127 reads

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• When women go wrong, men go right after them.

  

  Mae West

  ComedianAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 70 reads

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• Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 11 votes · 121 reads

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• You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 63 votes · 74 reads

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