Famous Quotes

A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

I know my limitations. I know I'm not perfect. I know what I know, but more importantly, I know what I don't know. When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin.

Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Free time is the enemy of progress

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

I don't gang bang but I'll bang tha thang!

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.