TOP 100 LIST - Citates:
| Citate |
Author |
 |
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| Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future. |
Ayn Rand |
150 |
80 |
| Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. |
Emma Goldman |
127 |
62 |
| We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children. |
L. Neil Smith |
143 |
81 |
| That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt. |
Ann Romney |
127 |
66 |
| Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. |
Johnny Ball |
120 |
62 |
| No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. |
James A. Baldwin |
99 |
49 |
| According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek. |
John Buchanan Robinson |
100 |
50 |
| No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife. |
James Beattie |
120 |
71 |
| I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. |
Elvis Presley |
97 |
50 |
| Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine. |
Christopher Plummer |
88 |
41 |
| In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. |
Anna Jameson |
155 |
109 |
| The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. |
Aristotle |
133 |
88 |
| Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation. |
Bjorn Lomborg |
100 |
56 |
| It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. |
Toni Morrison |
94 |
50 |
| The things we remember best are those better forgotten. |
Baltasar Gracian |
109 |
65 |
| As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor. |
Brendan Fraser |
119 |
76 |
| You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh. |
Paula Radcliffe |
98 |
57 |
| Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good. |
Clement Mok |
84 |
43 |
| I always wanted to be a teacher. |
Nicky Hilton |
88 |
47 |
| The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers. |
Guy Kawasaki |
108 |
68 |
| We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. |
Marguerite Gardiner |
93 |
53 |
| Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. |
George Eliot |
91 |
52 |
| That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. |
Paul Wolfowitz |
113 |
74 |
| It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world. |
Aneurin Bevan |
89 |
50 |
| I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words. |
Stella McCartney |
75 |
37 |
| I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior. |
Serge Lang |
86 |
48 |
| As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. |
Christopher Dawson |
77 |
39 |
| I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. |
Vladimir Kramnik |
96 |
58 |
| I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old. |
Retief Goosen |
119 |
82 |
| Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. |
Bill Gates |
112 |
75 |
| My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch. |
Russell Crowe |
90 |
53 |
| I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. |
Kevin Bacon |
93 |
56 |
| The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it. |
Johnny Depp |
90 |
54 |
| All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. |
Dalai Lama |
107 |
71 |
| I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it. |
Nick Clegg |
91 |
55 |
| I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. |
Muhammad Ali |
78 |
42 |
| I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous. |
Christopher Parker |
136 |
101 |
| I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. |
David Bowie |
80 |
45 |
| While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan. |
John Linder |
95 |
60 |
| Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. |
James MacGregor Burns |
86 |
51 |
| To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. |
Susan Sontag |
87 |
52 |
| Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table. |
Giada De Laurentiis |
104 |
69 |
| My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. |
Michael Jordan |
91 |
57 |
| I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror. |
Barbra Streisand |
111 |
77 |
| A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
77 |
43 |
| Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. |
Khalil Gibran |
107 |
73 |
| It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death. |
Christopher Shays |
81 |
47 |
| Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. |
V. S. Naipaul |
118 |
85 |
| Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
80 |
47 |
| What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
74 |
41 |
| Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. |
Bill Gates |
111 |
78 |
| I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives. |
George Hickenlooper |
83 |
50 |
| The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
92 |
59 |
| I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. |
Georgia O'Keeffe |
113 |
80 |
| I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness. |
David Fincher |
123 |
90 |
| Beware the fury of a patient man. |
John Dryden |
88 |
55 |
| I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative. |
Andy Milonakis |
82 |
49 |
| All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. |
John Cheever |
88 |
55 |
| You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. |
Albert Einstein |
98 |
65 |
| I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. |
Miranda Lambert |
121 |
88 |
| When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life. |
Carnie Wilson |
80 |
47 |
| You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. |
Wayne Dyer |
101 |
69 |
| But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us. |
Marco Rubio |
116 |
84 |
| The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
77 |
45 |
| Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. |
Jackie Chan |
92 |
60 |
| We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road. |
Rick Santelli |
81 |
49 |
| A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you. |
Marilyn Monroe |
73 |
41 |
| I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else. |
Wayne Coyne |
116 |
84 |
| It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in. |
Lynda Barry |
102 |
70 |
| As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. |
Andrew Carnegie |
81 |
49 |
| I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience. |
Brian Harvey |
87 |
55 |
| All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. |
John Shelby Spong |
86 |
54 |
| You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? |
W. Clement Stone |
115 |
83 |
| I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me it felt disloyal. |
Robert Crais |
76 |
44 |
| I ain't got much education, but I got some sense. |
Loretta Lynn |
117 |
85 |
| Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. |
Lao Tzu |
103 |
71 |
| I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes. |
Danny Boyle |
88 |
56 |
| You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student. |
Elisabeth Rohm |
112 |
81 |
| I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time. |
Patrick Wilson |
93 |
62 |
| The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. |
Tony Blair |
71 |
40 |
| I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. |
Rand Paul |
79 |
48 |
| I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist. |
Steven Hatfill |
67 |
36 |
| It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. |
John le Carre |
89 |
58 |
| I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. |
Charles Kuralt |
110 |
79 |
| Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. |
G. M. Trevelyan |
89 |
58 |
| Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
92 |
61 |
| The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
97 |
66 |
| And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored. |
Lev Grossman |
78 |
47 |
| They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. |
James Stockdale |
80 |
49 |
| As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up. |
Tom Hanks |
76 |
45 |
| Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone. |
Susan Orlean |
77 |
46 |
| The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. |
Lascelles Abercrombie |
114 |
83 |
| All experience is an arch, to build upon. |
Henry Adams |
84 |
53 |
| To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. |
John Burroughs |
102 |
71 |
| I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. |
Klaus Kinski |
107 |
77 |
| We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that. |
Ethan Hawke |
81 |
51 |
| The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers. |
Matthew Perry |
110 |
80 |
| I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. |
Alain de Botton |
90 |
60 |
| Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. |
Terry Eagleton |
98 |
68 |
| I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way. |
Tom Cruise |
106 |
76 |
