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 |
140 |
70 |
| 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 |
123 |
60 |
| Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. |
Emma Goldman |
114 |
51 |
| 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 |
123 |
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 |
115 |
61 |
| 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 |
110 |
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 |
149 |
102 |
| 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 |
95 |
48 |
| I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. |
Elvis Presley |
85 |
39 |
| The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. |
Aristotle |
127 |
82 |
| 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 |
51 |
| 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 |
86 |
42 |
| Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine. |
Christopher Plummer |
82 |
39 |
| It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world. |
Aneurin Bevan |
81 |
39 |
| 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 |
78 |
37 |
| That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. |
Paul Wolfowitz |
107 |
67 |
| We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. |
Marguerite Gardiner |
78 |
38 |
| The things we remember best are those better forgotten. |
Baltasar Gracian |
92 |
53 |
| 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 |
56 |
| You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh. |
Paula Radcliffe |
88 |
49 |
| 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 |
90 |
52 |
| 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 |
102 |
64 |
| Beware the fury of a patient man. |
John Dryden |
82 |
44 |
| 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 |
107 |
70 |
| 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 |
74 |
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 |
70 |
| 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 |
88 |
51 |
| I always wanted to be a teacher. |
Nicky Hilton |
81 |
44 |
| I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior. |
Serge Lang |
79 |
43 |
| 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 |
70 |
35 |
| Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. |
George Eliot |
72 |
37 |
| 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 |
82 |
47 |
| I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. |
Stephen Rea |
77 |
42 |
| 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 |
74 |
39 |
| 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 |
65 |
31 |
| 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 |
82 |
48 |
| I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. |
Muhammad Ali |
62 |
28 |
| As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor. |
Brendan Fraser |
105 |
72 |
| 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 |
105 |
72 |
| The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
67 |
34 |
| Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. |
Bill Gates |
106 |
73 |
| 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 |
108 |
75 |
| I ain't got much education, but I got some sense. |
Loretta Lynn |
112 |
79 |
| 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 |
86 |
53 |
| I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. |
Kevin Bacon |
76 |
43 |
| 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 |
72 |
39 |
| 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 |
99 |
66 |
| To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. |
John Burroughs |
95 |
62 |
| 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 |
64 |
31 |
| It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. |
John Ruskin |
95 |
63 |
| 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 |
76 |
44 |
| 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 |
125 |
93 |
| 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 |
74 |
42 |
| 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 |
68 |
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 |
78 |
46 |
| I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones. |
Kathleen Turner |
105 |
73 |
| We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. |
Gloria Steinem |
64 |
32 |
| 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 |
76 |
44 |
| In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent. |
Jessica Savitch |
64 |
32 |
| You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student. |
Elisabeth Rohm |
101 |
70 |
| 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 |
103 |
72 |
| Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
77 |
46 |
| Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. |
Jackie Chan |
87 |
56 |
| 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 |
72 |
41 |
| 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 |
84 |
53 |
| 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 |
101 |
70 |
| 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 |
84 |
53 |
| As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. |
Andrew Carnegie |
76 |
45 |
| 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 |
77 |
46 |
| And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip. |
Gary Oldman |
97 |
66 |
| I am two with nature. |
Woody Allen |
69 |
38 |
| My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there. |
Atticus Shaffer |
85 |
54 |
| I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. |
Georgia O'Keeffe |
98 |
67 |
| 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 |
81 |
50 |
| I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer. |
Joaquin Phoenix |
63 |
32 |
| Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. |
Khalil Gibran |
97 |
66 |
| That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar. |
Tom Araya |
81 |
50 |
| Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. |
V. S. Naipaul |
106 |
76 |
| 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 |
65 |
35 |
| 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 |
77 |
47 |
| If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. |
Jerry Falwell |
102 |
72 |
| 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 |
62 |
32 |
| Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts. |
Tony Visconti |
73 |
43 |
| Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. |
Jean de la Bruyere |
97 |
67 |
| 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 |
89 |
59 |
| The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education. |
Joseph Lancaster |
86 |
56 |
| 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 |
65 |
35 |
| All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. |
John Cheever |
79 |
49 |
| 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 |
75 |
45 |
| The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. |
Cyril Connolly |
76 |
46 |
| I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. |
Miranda Lambert |
110 |
80 |
| 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 |
72 |
42 |
| I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time. |
Patrick Wilson |
89 |
60 |
| 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 |
104 |
75 |
| Study the past, if you would divine the future. |
Confucius |
58 |
29 |
| Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. |
Thomas Aquinas |
86 |
57 |
| Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. |
Calvin Coolidge |
92 |
63 |
| I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. |
Shimon Peres |
83 |
54 |
| I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. |
Jodi Picoult |
77 |
48 |
| 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 |
103 |
74 |
