8396 Quotes & Sayings

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome — Friedrich Nietzsche

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand. — Roddy Doyle

Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe. — Francis Fukuyama

You learn how to persevere ... to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit. — Ricardo Liborio

Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness. — Surya Das

Be grateful for all the disappointments and failures you have had. They give you something extremely valuable: experience! — Johnathan Christ

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. — James Cash Penney

You can receive your ideas with respect and curiosity, not with drama or dread. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position ... The American people have changed. — Mengistu Haile Mariam

The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous. — Alain De Botton

You become an artist to upset your family. — Gunter Brus

The announcement yesterday follows Obama's 2011 agreement with automakers to build cars that average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. But as important as fuel efficiency in automobiles may be, power plants are the largest concentrated source of carbon dioxide emissions. The EPA's new power-plant rules will reduce overall emissions by at least 80 times more metric tons of carbon than the regulations for cars. Almost all credible reports suggest the world is passing the point where it can reverse, or eliminate, global warming. But that only means it's more urgent than ever to push for historic carbon reductions. Nonetheless, many politicians - including the usual global-warming deniers and those from both parties in fossil-fuel-producing states - rushed to claim the new rules would cause steep economic damage. — Anonymous

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit — Edward W. Said

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts. — Diana Palmer