Heart Touching Famous Quotes & Sayings

People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things. — Jon Runyan

I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50. — Marie Brennan

Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you. — Jeev Milkha Singh

Must it be, that what makes for a man's happiness becomes the source for his misery? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back. — H.L. Mencken

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either. — Frederik L. Schodt

We may distinguish both true and false needs. "False" are those which are superimposed upon the individual by particular social interests in his repression: the needs which perpetuate toil, aggressiveness, misery, and injustice. Their satisfaction might be most gratifying to the individual, but this happiness is not a condition which has to be maintained and protected if it serves to arrest the development of the ability (his own and others) to recognize the disease of the whole and grasp the chances of curing the disease. The result then is euphoria in unhappiness. Most of the prevailing needs to relax, to have fun, to behave and consume in accordance with the advertisements, to love and hate what others love and hate, belong to this category of false needs. — Herbert Marcuse

In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his equals; he contracts from them his habits and his wants; his ideas are no longer his own; he enjoys, from the enviable prerogative of his species, a capacity of developing his understanding bu the power of initiation, and the influence of society. — Jean Marc Gaspard Itard

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. — Nathaniel Branden

Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind. — Frederick Lenz

So maybe we never would have realized we were so compatible if we hadn't been trading song lyrics and movie dialogue. That's textbook trivia right there."
Mindy looks unconvinced. "But that's how *everybody* gets together. They find some dumb thing they both know a little about that they can talk about until the waiter brings dinner. According to you, there probably isn't a marriage or a relationship or a friendship anywhere today that wasn't jump-started by trivia."
"I think that's exactly right," I agree. "To trivia. — Ken Jennings

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to ... I'm not just a boxer. — Muhammad Ali

Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast. — Robert Plant