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 |
147 |
73 |
| Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. |
Emma Goldman |
123 |
58 |
| 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 |
138 |
76 |
| 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 |
125 |
64 |
| 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 |
118 |
62 |
| 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 |
154 |
104 |
| 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 |
99 |
49 |
| 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 |
117 |
68 |
| 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 |
91 |
45 |
| I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. |
Elvis Presley |
92 |
46 |
| Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine. |
Christopher Plummer |
85 |
39 |
| The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. |
Aristotle |
132 |
86 |
| 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 |
76 |
| The things we remember best are those better forgotten. |
Baltasar Gracian |
105 |
62 |
| You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh. |
Paula Radcliffe |
97 |
54 |
| 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 |
95 |
53 |
| That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. |
Paul Wolfowitz |
110 |
68 |
| 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 |
89 |
48 |
| 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 |
81 |
40 |
| 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 |
111 |
72 |
| 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 |
84 |
45 |
| 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 |
106 |
67 |
| 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 |
103 |
64 |
| I always wanted to be a teacher. |
Nicky Hilton |
83 |
44 |
| We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. |
Marguerite Gardiner |
87 |
48 |
| 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 |
95 |
57 |
| I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. |
Kevin Bacon |
90 |
52 |
| It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world. |
Aneurin Bevan |
85 |
47 |
| As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor. |
Brendan Fraser |
111 |
74 |
| I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior. |
Serge Lang |
83 |
46 |
| 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 |
89 |
52 |
| I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. |
Muhammad Ali |
73 |
36 |
| 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 |
73 |
37 |
| 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 |
89 |
53 |
| Beware the fury of a patient man. |
John Dryden |
87 |
51 |
| 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 |
72 |
37 |
| 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 |
71 |
36 |
| 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 |
93 |
58 |
| Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. |
George Eliot |
82 |
47 |
| 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 |
56 |
| I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. |
Georgia O'Keeffe |
104 |
69 |
| A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
75 |
40 |
| I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. |
Miranda Lambert |
119 |
84 |
| Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. |
Thomas Aquinas |
93 |
59 |
| I ain't got much education, but I got some sense. |
Loretta Lynn |
114 |
80 |
| I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes. |
Danny Boyle |
86 |
52 |
| 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 |
77 |
43 |
| 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 |
85 |
52 |
| 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 |
83 |
50 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
113 |
80 |
| 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 |
70 |
38 |
| 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 |
128 |
96 |
| 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 |
109 |
77 |
| The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
73 |
41 |
| Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. |
Jackie Chan |
90 |
58 |
| 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 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 |
105 |
73 |
| 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 |
108 |
76 |
| As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. |
Andrew Carnegie |
79 |
47 |
| I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs. |
Jim Clyburn |
106 |
74 |
| 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 |
85 |
53 |
| 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 |
80 |
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 |
69 |
37 |
| Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. |
G. M. Trevelyan |
87 |
55 |
| I am two with nature. |
Woody Allen |
71 |
39 |
| 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 |
75 |
43 |
| Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible. |
Dee Dee Myers |
82 |
50 |
| I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative. |
Andy Milonakis |
80 |
48 |
| You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV. |
Tom Colicchio |
79 |
47 |
| I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time. |
Patrick Wilson |
93 |
62 |
| 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 |
106 |
75 |
| Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. |
V. S. Naipaul |
116 |
85 |
| 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 |
110 |
79 |
| I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. |
Rand Paul |
77 |
46 |
| I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak. |
Warren Farrell |
66 |
35 |
| Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. |
Bill Gates |
108 |
77 |
| Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
89 |
58 |
| 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 |
106 |
75 |
| We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. |
Gloria Steinem |
66 |
35 |
| 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 |
92 |
61 |
| Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. |
Lao Tzu |
102 |
71 |
| I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness. |
David Fincher |
118 |
87 |
| All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. |
John Cheever |
83 |
52 |
| The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. |
Pablo Neruda |
103 |
72 |
| 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 |
75 |
44 |
| To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. |
John Burroughs |
98 |
67 |
| There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience. |
Chuck Tanner |
66 |
35 |
| You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student. |
Elisabeth Rohm |
109 |
79 |
| Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
77 |
47 |
| My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze. |
David Miliband |
101 |
71 |
| In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. |
Ernst Fischer |
75 |
45 |
| If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. |
Jerry Falwell |
102 |
72 |
| For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. |
John F. Kennedy |
90 |
60 |
| I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. |
Stephen Rea |
86 |
56 |
| Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. |
Jean de la Bruyere |
100 |
70 |
| When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. |
Henry Miller |
69 |
39 |
| I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality. |
George Clooney |
90 |
60 |
| 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 |
83 |
53 |
