Quotes and Phrases2 Flashcards
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There’s only one very good life and that’s the life you know you want and make it yourself.
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Diana Vreeland
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When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.
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Karen E. Quinones Miller, American journalist
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Nostalgia is only as good as the people who benefit from it.
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Saying
4
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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Cesar A. Cruz, internationally renowned poet, educator and human rights activist
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Done is better than perfect.
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KPG
6
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Don’t come into the club and blame me for the price of a drink.
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KPG
7
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Beautiful women are always standing around at the finish line of a guy’s life.
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Comedian Bill Burr
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A beautiful life begins with a beautiful mind.
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Who cares about perfection? Even the moon is not perfect, it is full of craters…
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Bob Marley, when asked if the perfect woman existed.
10
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Is there another word for synonym?
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Brainscape’s Instagram page
11
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Small towns generate big fish in small pools
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The Murdaugh documentary on HBO
12
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FUBAR
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a military acronym for “fucked up beyond all repair”
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Behind mountains, there are more mountains.
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Haitian proverb meaning that there are always more obstacles.
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Man proposes, God disposes
Man proposes, but God disposes
As fate would have it
Heaven forbid
Nature permitting
Murphy’s Law
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saying people can make plans but whether or not they are successful depends on God
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deo volente
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God willing; if nothing prevents it
16
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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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Mike Tyson
17
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Respect people’s feelings. Even if it doesn’t mean anything to you. It could mean everything to them.
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18
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The things which hurt, instruct.
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Benjamin Franklin
19
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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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Chief Joseph, leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Tribe, who became famous in 1877 for leading his people on an epic flight across the Rocky Mountains.
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I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.
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Rudy Francisco, spoken word poet and author
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You build your mind so make it into something you want to live with.
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Marilynne Robinson, American author
22
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The universal stems from the specific.
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Denzel Washington
23
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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The school of wrestling
24
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Do not allow my confidence to offend your insecurity. You have to believe in yourself in order to win.
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Deion Sanders
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The sentimental person is a person who wants the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Oscar Wilde
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like a lion and the wolf.
Epicurus
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Don’t focus on your goals.. Instead focus on your HABITS that will take you to them. It’s always YOU vs. YOU.
SWAG (Sister with a Goal)
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Elysium
the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology
paradise, heaven
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The good thing about perseverance is that it can’t be stopped by anything besides death.
Ryan Holiday
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Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value
Albert Einstein
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One monkey don't stop no show.
one setback should not impede progress
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You lose value when you're too accessible.
Saying
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Don't take criticism from people you would never go to for advice.
Morgan Freeman
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
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If you seek tranquility, do less. Or (more accurately) do what’s essential. Do less, better. Because most of what we do or say is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more tranquility.
Marcus Aurelius
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Plato
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
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Quel dommage!
What a pity!
What a shame!
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
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It is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
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The danger is believing that the mirage is actually an oasis.
Arthur Brooks, Happiness guru
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If you have a library and a garden, you have everything you need.
Cicero
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Action has magic, power, and grace to it.
Goethe
45
charm incarnate
description of Slim Keith
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
Virginia Woolf
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How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
John Locke
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
James Baldwin
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Ask yourself how old would you be if you didn't know the day you were born?
Toby Keith from "Don't Let the Old Man In"
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We tend to gravitate toward certain races because we believe that particular cultural software is already pre-installed.
Roy Wood Jr. from The Daily Show
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high thread count sad
Jerrod Carmichael- I'm rich, but I'm sad.
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If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu
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Pay attention to what you pay attention to.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host.
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All the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.
Shel Silverstein
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Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.
Beyoncé Knowles
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Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee
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Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.
Simplicity is hacking away the unessential — it is not daily increase but daily decrease.
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Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goals.
Bruce Lee
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
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Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett
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The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., philanthropist and developer of Rockefeller Center
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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
Albert Einstein
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
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I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
Albert Einstein
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Your perceived failure can become the catalyst for profound reinvention.
Conan O'Brien
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There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
Conan O'Brien
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler
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Fish and visitors smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
Aristophanes
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All great ideas come from a picture.
Michio Kaku, an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science
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Knowledge is not power. Used knowledge is power
Tom Bilyeu
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Emotions are not facts. Don’t let them hold you back.
Tom Bilyeu
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The world is made by people no smarter than you.
Steve Jobs
79
No one will act for the many, but many will act for the one.
Mother Theresa
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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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You are never a victim unless you choose to be. Everything that happens to you is your fault.
Tom Bilyeu
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You must play to win.
Tom Bilyeu
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You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
Leon Trotsky
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You're only as young as the woman you feel.
The dirty old man's maxim
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See that guy? Go find him.
Search for the life you lost somewhere.
Saying
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They only want a nurse or a purse.
Stereotype that dating an older man is fruitless for those reasons.
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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
David Foster Wallace expresses this line from his epic 1996 novel "Infinite Jest."
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good good man
the type of man whose very physicality in causing women to chase him regardless of their marital situation. If he has to chase them, he's not a good good man
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Almost every man in the world has two fears: a fear of judgment and a fear of death.
Roosh V
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Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
David Steindl-Rast, an American Catholic Benedictine monk
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Find a mirror that works.
See yourself as you really are, not just the sanitized view of yourself.
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Emmett Till moment
Showing evidence of an atrocity
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She/he is an ancestor now.
She's/he's dead.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
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Call coming from inside the closet.
When someone is hyper negative about gay people.
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Beauty is a currency; it’ll open doors for you that brains can’t. Use it.
Natalie Usen, Nigerian author
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The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.
Plato
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Without a sense of urgency desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn, an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker
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Your obsessions become your possessions.
Saying
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Some recollections may vary.
You’re lying!
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Keeping it 100
Being authentic and truthful
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tempus horibilis
Horrible time
Terrible time
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Rooting for laundry
Jerry Seinfeld's term for partisanship. Voters are just voting for D and R jerseys
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Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify, because the players are always changing; the team could move to another city. You're actually rooting for the clothes when you get right down to it.
Jerry Seinfeld
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If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.
Tony Gaskins
106
The marriage was better arranged on paper.
Jack Astor's and Ava Willing's marriage
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colonial economy
an economy in which the jobs have been one place but much of the profit has gone elsewhere. Generally speaking, decision-makers reside where the capital goes.
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He got high on his own supply.
(figuratively) Assigning too much credibility to exaggerated favorable descriptions of one's character, achievements, or prospects; intoxicated by one's own braggadocio; enamored with one's own overvalued public image.
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They will warm themselves in the glow of the fire as he goes down in flames.
Peggy Noonan about Trump supporters.
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Every victory carries within it the seeds of defeat, every defeat the seeds of victory.
Napoleon Hill
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Put a battery in his back.
1. Convincing a weak minded individual to handle a confrontation for you, usually through violence.
2. To persuade a individual to accomplish a task they were previously unaware of; or procrastinating on.
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Only you can take charge of your situation.
Only you can prevent forest fires
CBG
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You can’t heal when you pretend you aren’t hurt.
Robby Poole on Facebook
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren, pastor and author of "The Purpose Driven Life"
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Hop, skip, jump, and a flight
Long way away
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The world only exists in your eyes... You can make it as big or as small as you want.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I had my patience tested- I’m negative.
T-shirt
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I may look calm, but in my head I’ve slapped you 3 times.
T-shirt
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I change myself, I change the world.
Gloria Anzaldúa, an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory.
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I was half alive. Any sense of being a lovable or worthy person had gone completely.
Emma Thompson about Kenneth Branaugh's infidelity and betrayal.
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All blood under the bridge.
Water under the bridge
All in the past
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Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years.
Robin Sharma, a Canadian writer, best known for his The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book series.
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to get closer to the bone
to get more to the point
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Don’t confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne
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The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.
African proverb
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Don't be what you reject.
Chris Cuomo
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Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself
Napoleon
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I stand on generational prayers.
Keisha Lance Bottoms
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I am the hope of the slave.
Maya Angelou
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If you ever want to learn what’s wrong with you, don’t look in the mirror; give Brigid a glass of wine and she’ll tell you.
Andy Warhol about Brigid Berlin, an American artist.
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Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.
Robin Williams
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams
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Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It is better to be alone and love yourself than to be surrounded by people who make you hate yourself.
Robin Williams
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Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Edward Snowden
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Reasonable doubt begins with a reasonable retainer.
Legal saying
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Not to the manner born, but to the manners bred.
NYT obituary of Stephen Birmingham
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Her ambition walked into the room before she did.
Luis Aguilar about Kamala Harris
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End of times level
crazy, over the top - Olivier Knox
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unfree Africans; enslaved Africans,
alternative language
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All of these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
42-word monologue delivered by character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott-directed film Blade Runner.
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sub-rosa
happening or done in secret.
"the committee operates sub rosa"
under the rose
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I’s not the size of the ship it’s the motion of the ocean.
Old saying
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A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
Buddha
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This is going to get ugly. Wrath of God stuff. The living will envy the dead.
Julie Mason
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Someone’s behavior towards you is a simple reflection of their relationship with themselves.
Jason Luv
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What you ignore, you empower.
Chris Cuomo
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You play the way you practice
Chris Cuomo
148
Politicians act more out of consequence than conscience
Chris Cuomo
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She didn't half-ass it. She gave it the full ass.
Saying
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As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.
Margaret Heffernan, Businesswoman
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They look at each other like it’s Day 10 after they have run out of food on their life boat.
Olivier Knox
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The dude is SO into himself and swears he's the hottest cake in the oven. He's so into himself he prays to himself before he goes to sleep.
Saying about a vain man
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Harsh to the meek and meek to the harsh.
Chris Cuomo describing Donald Trump
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take French leave
to go away, or do anything, without permission or notice.
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Forget the long term. Life presents itself in the short term.
Professor from Darden
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passe blanc
Passe pour blanc
A term used for the "French Creoles of Color" in Louisiana that were so light skinned and looked so white that they were called "Passe Blanc" which is French for "Passing White".
They could also be called "Passe Pour Blanc" which which is French for "Passing for white"
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Loving someone as long as he or she makes you happy is no love, it's consumerism.
Alicia Palenyy, YouTube subscriber
Twitter person
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Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The dreams of who you could become are a very important part of how you define yourself.
Patrick Carroll, assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University
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The greatest gift you can give anyone is raising their aspirations.
Randy Gage
American author and motivational speaker
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So open-minded your head can fall out.
David Barton, Christian political activist and scholar
Christian revisionist historian
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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Life becomes more meaningful when you realize the simple fact that you’ll never get the same moment twice.
Anonymous
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If you don’t talk about it, it won’t happen. Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
Used to point out that somebody is in a state of psychological denial.
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Stop talking in Hebrew and start talking in Yiddish.
A New Yorker’s way of advising his colleagues to be more conversational and less poll-tested.
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She is lightly regarded.
She is not respected
She ain’t shit
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You want to find comfort in creating the narrative you own.
Chris Cuomo
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Arms race on...
tax cuts
Aggressive movement on ...
Quote by Kemi Badenoch
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Pursue ambition without apology.
Pursue happiness without regret.
Barkha Dutt, Indian television journalist and author
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The line will surely be hung around my neck.
When a comment you make sticks to you in infamy.
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Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Ronald Reagan
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If you don’t challenge it, it sticks.
April Ryan
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You can't say all lives matter until you acknowledge that each life matters.
Kevin Thompson, Pastor on NYT The Daily podcast (9/2/2022)
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I get them for one hour of the week and Fox gets them for 10 hours.
Kevin Thompson, Pastor on NYT The Daily podcast (9/2/2022)
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Republicans should be forced to carry Donald Trump to term, even it if endangers the life of the party.
Twitter post
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electoral narcissism
When Donald Trump weighs the Republican party down by picking candidates based not on issues or electability but on personal loyalty.
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You beat the dead horse so much that it's now a pony.
You beat the dead horse so much that it's now compost.
KPG
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Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo
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I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Viola Davis
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Be the hero of your own movie
Joe Rogan
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Originality thrives in
seclusion free of outside
influences beating upon us
to cripple the creative mind.
Nikola Tesla
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Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings
Nelson Mandela
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A big part of being confident is being brave, and you can't be brave unless you're scared.
Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, and filmmaker.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist
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Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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50 years or earlier is history. Anything sooner is politics.
Saying
188
Remain the Reverend.
The unofficial motto Raphael Warnock and his Senate campaign team live by.
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Sometimes you have to be a lion so that you can be the lamb you really are.
Dave Chapelle's mother
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Discretion is the better part of valor.
It is better to avoid a dangerous situation than to confront it.
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If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anyone, come and sit here by me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Optimism is a happiness magnet.
Mary Lou Retton
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Jack Kornfield
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laundered way of saying (something)
anodyne or euphemized way of saying something
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spitting distance
a very short distance.
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have (one's) hand on the wheel
have two hands on the wheel
To assume or maintain steady control of some situation, activity, or enterprise.
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I believe in the Jewish people, and the Jewish people believe in God.
Golda Meir, who strongly identified with Judaism culturally, but was an atheist in religious belief.
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off the bench
a person, place or thing that is mad crazy and awesome. the bench is some sort of metaphorical "normal track" of life, because it is straight and confined. When a player (person) is "on the bench", they aren't playing the game (of life). to be off the bench is one who A. goes against the norm and B. enjoys life to its full extent.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
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When you buy a ticket to the circus. don't be surprised to see elephants.
Saying. Norris Church Mailer
201
cock of the walk
A proud or conceited person.
big man in town, the greatest
202
The smartest person in the room, is the room.
David Weinberger
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If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.
Confucius
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Non Sibi Sed Aliis
The motto upon which Georgia was founded: "Not for self, but for others.”
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The ultimate Petrie dish
The ultimate experiment
The ultimate test
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Try to never be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people or find a different room.
Michael Dell
207
BC/AD moment
the moment that changes everything
the moment where history pivots
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You could not have built a better candidate from a kit.
Joy Reid about Raphael Warnock
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Herschel was like a plane crash into a train wreck that rolled into a dumpster fire. And an orphanage. Then an animal shelter. You kind of had to watch it squinting through one eye between your fingers
Dan McLagan, an adviser to Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black
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Fill in the blank: "___ thrives in seclusion free of outside influences."
Nikola Tesla
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Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton
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If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours.
Dolly Parton
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I think you have to work at being happy, just like you have to work at being miserable. I’m going to grasp every happy moment I can find.
Dolly Parton
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If my attitude needs more adjusting, I visualize God holding me upside down and shaking all the negative stuff — fears, doubts, insecurities — right out of me. Try it. Ask God to turn you upside down! It’s a surefire pick-me-up.
Dolly Parton
215
Providing the right nutrient agar
Putting together the requisite elements to make something happen (Chuck Schumer).
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Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.
Steve Maraboli, author of Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes, Australian-born art critic
220
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
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If we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Transparency is the new objectivity.
David Weinberger, American author, technologist, philosopher, and speaker about journalism and credibility
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.
David Weinberger, American author, technologist, philosopher, and speaker
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How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.
David Weinberger, American author, technologist, philosopher, and speaker
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Our task is to learn how to build smart rooms – that is, how to build networks that make us smarter, especially since, when done badly, networks can make us distressingly stupider.
David Weinberger, American author, technologist, philosopher, and speaker
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Every time you feel sorry for me, you make me less. This is the only life I’ve ever known, so stop feeling sorry for the only thing I have.
Ashton Kutcher's twin brother Michael who has cerebral palsy.
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It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
229
The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt.
Sylvia Plath
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He had so much baggage it was luggage.
Political pundit Mark about Herschel Walker
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I wonder if any moment surpasses that of the second martini at lunch, when the waiters are attentive, when all life, the future, the world seems good and gilded (it matters not at all whom one is with, male or female, yes or no).
Patricia Highsmith
232
That candidate is made of asbestos. Catches fire frequently and yet doesn’t burn.
A Republican pundit's description of Donald Trump
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regurgitate some other fortune cookie platitude
Carlyn Beccia, Medium
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Living in a house does not make you less haunted.
Carlyn Beccia, Medium discussing marital unhappiness statistics
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Break the story before the story breaks you.
Saying
236
It isn’t tough to make the decisions, kid, it’s tough to live with the consequences of those decisions,'
Michael Bublé’s manager
237
If the ice is that thin…
If you’re that sensitive… (KPG)
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Clearing the undergrowth so that we can see each other in the right light
Cutting the bullshit so that we can be for real
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Be soft. Do not let the
world make you hard.
lain S. Thomas
240
There is nothing stronger
than a broken woman who has
rebuilt herself.
Hannah Gadsby
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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
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Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.
Schindler's List
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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
Mark Twain
244
There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.
Warren Buffett
245
He had more skeletons in his past than closets to stash them in.
Dr. Charles Bullock (UGA professor) about Herschel Walker
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No cap
Not lying/ not tripping/ telling the truth period
247
in the main
on the whole
248
You just can’t put on a clean shirt and think that no one notices the smell that’s still there.
Michael Steele
249
That's not my truth
I don't like that
250
Nothing so far in his career suggests he is a leader of that caliber
CNN description of Kevin McCarthy
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A laughing jury seldom convicts
Mark Twain
252
Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
253
Do not let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Steve Jobs
254
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
255
Ideas are like fish... if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
David Lynch
256
Beauty is not good capital. It compounds the oppression of gender. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty, like all capital, is merely valuable.
Tressie McMillian Cottom
257
Conventionally attractive and straight sized
Tressie McMillian Cottom's description of aesthetically appealing people
258
The cover did not give Kamala D. Harris due respect. It was overly familiar. It was a cover image that, in effect, called Harris by her first name without invitation.
Robin Givhan, the senior fashion critic at the Washington Post, describing the Kamala Harris Vogue magazine cover
259
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
260
I bet Ryan Gosling doesn’t even blow his candles out. He probably just winks at them and they faint.
Joke
261
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and what they behold actually has very little to do with you, and everything to do with brain chemistry and social conditioning.
Saying
262
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
263
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
264
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
265
If I were two-faced, would I be showing you this one?
Abraham Lincoln
266
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
267
Is the ice that thin?
Are you really that sensitive? KPG
268
Guided by facts — not factions
Adam Schiff
269
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary
270
You are unique and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
Martha Graham
271
Be your own Bugatti
If you just worked out and actually were proud of your body at its purest form naked in the mirror, you would have the highest level of confidence that no Rolex, that no filler, that no Jordans, that no Ferrari can buy because when you're driving in a Ferrari you're literally borrowing the credibility of that car.
@average2elite on Instagram
272
Not all those who wander
are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
273
Actions unlock opportunities
Seth Godin
274
Your job is to solve interesting problems and lead because everything else is done by a computer
Seth Godin
275
All experience is great providing you live through it.
Alice Neel, American visual artist
276
Children see magic because they look for it.
Christopher Moore, author of Lamb
277
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat.
Queen Elizabeth II
278
Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion.
André Leon Talley
279
I’m a tree now where the trunk is strong enough, and the roots are deep enough, that I can branch out in any direction.
Kathleen Turner
280
Characters who, facing the unthinkable, decide to go ahead and think it.
NYT
281
New York is like a city made of modeling clay. You can make it whatever you want. It's the only city in the world where you can have totally separate lives, groups of friends that didn't know one another or anything about one another.
Truman Capote
282
Beautiful people have something more... It's a level of taste and freedom. I think that's what always attracted me. The freedom to pursue an aesthetic quality in life is an extra dimension like being able to fly where others walk. It's marvelous to appreciate paintings, but why not have them? Why not create a whole aesthetic ambiance? Be your own living work of art? It has a good deal to do with money, but that's not all of it by any means.
Truman Capote
283
An artist whose sole creation is her perishable self
Truman Capote's description of his swans
284
Nobody gives a damn who you sleep with. It's who you're seen dining with that counts.
Maury Paul, Cholly Knickerbocker gossip columnist
285
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself
Truman Capote
286
A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.
Old Irish proverb
287
A vote is a prayer about the kind of world we want to live in. And our prayers are stronger when we pray together.
Reverend Raphael Warnock
288
The 50s is the toughest decade to get through because you’re neither fish nor fowl. You think you’re still a youngster at heart, but others don’t.
Simon Hattenstone, British journalist and writer
289
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step
backward into safety
Abraham Maslow
290
The struggle, like life itself, should be joyful.
Miriam Miranda, Honduran activist who advocates for the human and environmental rights of the Garífuna
291
Please know that it’s often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you.
Derek Sivers, author of philosophy and entrepreneurship
292
What is the ultimate quantification of success? For me, it’s not how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s how little time you spend doing what you hate.
Casey Neistat, YouTube personality, Vlogger
293
Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it’s learning how to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
294
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Elon Musk
295
White supremacy helped unite North and South after the Civil War.
Historians
296
North and South unified around segregation
Historians
297
First feelings are always the most natural.
Louix XIV about first impressions
298
Make the good times happen, because the bad times come alone.
Dulce Naivit Morales
299
Too famous for the wrong reasons
What people said about the New York Woodward family
300
No matter how fortified you are, you are never fortified all the way down
Cornel West
301
I cannot conceive of myself with out the quality of sacrifice, the quality of affection and the quality of sustenance that I received from my parents.
Cornel West
302
Love is also a dangerous force. It is so powerful that it can lead to disintegration and destruction as well as leading to elevation and exultation.
Cornel West
303
Macbeth's witches feisty
Super scary level of feistiness
304
She looked at me like I had asked her to turn the martinis into water.
Carlyn Beccia
305
The day after New Hampshire, I went home and slept like a baby. Every two hours I woke up and cried.
Bob Dole
306
People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that.
George HW Bush
307
thicker than a snicker
fat
308
My evaluation of who I am was not tied to my being in the leadership. And I would say that to members. Don’t have who you are be directly related to whether you’re a member of Congress. Why are you here? What is your purpose?
Nancy Pelosi
309
When you invite the worse guy in the neighborhood to your party who will trash your house, suffer the consequences.
When you vote for a horrible person, you get what you get.
310
TFG
The Former Guy (Donald Trump)
311
The thin ice that he’s been on is even thinner than he thought.
Norman Ornstein, of the American Enterprise Institute about Kevin McCarthy
312
Both optimists and pessimists contriute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist, the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
313
Behind every elegance, there will be unglamorous hard work.
Sara Jane Ho, host of Netflix's Mind Your Manners
314
It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.
Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
315
Getting your karma back with interest
can be either + or -
316
You get the final word
Dan Abrams when he takes calls on his radio show
317
Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich
A post from a popular political page
318
The sheep will spend its entire life fearing the coyote only to be eaten by the shepherd.
Navajo proverb
319
I belong to no organized political party. I’m a Democrat.
Will Rogers
320
If we can share out story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
Brené Brown
321
Rip the bandage off
Rip off the band-aid
To quickly do an unpleasant job to avoid prolonging the agony.
To tell someone the harsh truth knowing its gonna hurt.
322
marginalized and minoritized
Certain people
323
You can learn from a work without being the center of it
Tressie McMillam Cottom
324
Every politician is born with a sell-by date pressed on his forehead, and Trump is no exception
Jack Shafer, Politico’s senior media writer
325
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
the racist British politician Enoch Powell observed in 1977
326
rightly placed faith
Having the correct object of faith
Having faith in the appropriate, correct thing
327
Faith in the word of America is the pulse beat of our democracy.
Bernard Kalb
328
the old man's friend
Pneumonia is called the old man's friend because, left untreated, the sufferer often lapses into a state of reduced consciousness, slipping peacefully away in their sleep, giving a dignified end to a period of often considerable suffering.
329
Everyone who tells you that the language is obtuse hates puppies. Ignore them.
Tressie McMillam Cottom
330
One of 'the prettiest sights in this pretty world is the privileged classes enjoying their privileges.
George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story
331
There is only so much mileage you can get out of a finite amount of material.
Howard Bragman, the chairman of the crisis-management firm La Brea Media about Harry and Meghan
332
You have to realize that you can really only tell your story once.
Howard Bragman, the chairman of the crisis-management firm La Brea Media about Harry and Meghan
333
immaturing with age
Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister
334
The Godfather Rule
The Godfather rule: never speak of the family to your enemies.
335
giving olfactory or visual offense
336
When the shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?
Kendrick Lamar
337
Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa
338
The struggle, like life itself, should be joyful.
Miriam Miranda, Honduran activist who advocates for the human and environmental rights of the Garífuna (African) people.
339
That's enough to make any intelligent person suspicious.
340
He wins the all-time Uncle Tom award.
341
Dignified silence is a tried and tested format.
Royal family about Harry and Meghan
342
If you can be easily had, you cannot be worth that much.
Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction
343
Attendance is not synonymous with participation
Burleigh
344
Play doesn’t are who make it
Dollar doesn’t care who has it
Pussy doesn’t care who fucks it
Burleigh
345
I’ve literally run by money to get pussy
Duke Ellington
346
You can heal more people with one song, than with two hundred sermons.
Saying
347
pas de deux
a dance for two people, typically a man and a woman.
348
There are three types of people in the world. There are stupid people, smart people, and geniuses. Stupid people make the same mistakes repeatedly and they stay in the same place or worse off. Smart people make a mistake once and they learn from it. Geniuses watch all the people around them and learn from the other people's mistakes without making them themselves.
Saying
349
As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through
Tim Roth, English actor
350
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities srpung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn't interest you.
Charles Bukowski
351
Do you hate people? I don't hate them. I just feel better when they're not around.
Charles Bukowski
352
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
Charles BUkowski
353
Your ambition is handicapped by laziness
Charles Bukowski
354
Genius might be the ability to say a simple thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
355
There are only two things wrong with money - too much or too little.
Charles Bukowski
356
We don't even ask for happiness. Just a little less pain.
Charles Bukowski
357
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Charles Bukoski
358
People are strange: they are constantly angered over trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Charles Bukowski
359
Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Charles Bukowski
360
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
Charles Bukowski
361
There is always one woman to save you from another as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
Charles Bukowski
362
Bad taste creates more millionaires than good taste
Charles Bukowski
363
The only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
Charles Bukowski
364
A love is like a serious illness, an illness from which you never fully recover.
Charles Bukowski
365
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
Charles Bukowski
366
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
Charles Bukowski
367
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
Charles Bukowski
368
We must bring our own light to the darkness.
Charles Bukowski
369
You are promised nothing in life. No contract was signed with you.
Charles Bukowski
370
The less you need, the better you feel.
Charles Bukowski
371
There are worse things than being alone, but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than being too late.
Charles Bukowski
372
Ambition rarely helps talent. Another thing is luck. Talent always trails behind her.
Charles Bukowski
373
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then at least you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
374
As humans, we adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable.
Charles BUkowski
375
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
Charles Bukowski
376
How can you trust a creature that bleeds every month and doesn't die?
Charles Bukowski
377
Some moments are nice, some are nicer. Some are even worth writing about.
Charles Bukowski
378
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Charles Bukowski
379
Life's as kind as you let it be.
Charles Bukowski
380
Sex is a great thing only when there is nothing else to do.
Charles Bukowski
381
If you managed to deceive a person, it doesn't mean that he is a fool, it means that you were trusted more than you deserved.
Charles Bukowski
382
Beauty is nothing. Beauty doesn't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else.
Charles Bukowski
383
Too often people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for someone to tell them that it isn't so.
Charles Bukowski
384
Great art is horseshit. Buy tacos.
Charles Bukowski
385
I often carry things to read so that I don't have to look at people.
Charles Bukowski
386
The woman who smiles at meeting you is most likely just planning to feed her ego.
Charles Bukowski
387
Some people like what you do. Some people hate what you do. But most people simply don't give a damn.
Charles Bukowski
388
Never say three things about yourself - your plans, your income, and the number of people you have slept with.
Charles Bukowski
389
As long as a man has wine and cigarettes, he can endure a lot.
Charles Bukowski
390
Why do women always need the husbands of other women? And why do horse thieves always prefer a tamed horse to a wild one?
Charles Bukowski
391
Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient.
Charles Bukowski
392
fauna-to-flora
A pretty way of saying you're doing less meat and more vegetables
393
deux-et-machina
god from the machine
Its function is generally to resolve an otherwise irresolvable plot situation, to surprise the audience, to bring the tale to a happy ending
394
Always a victim, never a victor
Description of Prince Harry
395
The first time you do something only happens once.
Chris Burden, American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art.
396
There will always be something that will get in my way of spending time with friends and family, if I allow it.
Saying
397
Never meet your heroes.
Marcel Proust said it first.
It is unwise to seek personal acquaintance with people whom one has regarded with high esteem, as they often fail to fulfill one's expectations, resulting in disappointment.
398
Roger that
used especially in radio and signaling to indicate that a message has been received and understood.
399
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.
Helen Keller
400
Take a canvas, Put a mark on it. Put another mark on it.
Jasper Johns, artist
401
A New York version of
A cooler, hipper version
402
He left us with plenty
Eulogy for Pete Colbenson
403
A man who fishes is a man with a purpose
Bait catch reel repeat
Pete Colbenson
404
He loved life even when it did not love him back.
Eulogy for Pete Colbenson
405
Dark night of the soul
An extremely difficult and painful period in one's life, for example, after the death of a loved one; the break-up of a marriage; or the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness.
406
Your worse days do not define or determine you
Eulogy for Pete Colbenson
407
In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
Carl Sagan
408
If yoou hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent van Gogh
409
Instructions for life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Oliver
410
Less a question and more of a comment…
When people need to talk about something that has nothing to do with the point.
411
How can you rebel against convention if you don’t know what the conventions are?”
Mark Strand, US Poet Laureate for 1990-91
412
tech native
digital native
a person who grew up with the presence of digital technology or in the information age.
413
I am a Roman Catholic. Not a fanatic, but I practice enough to keep the franchise. I don't always agree with the Pope ... There are issues that concern me, like abortion, contraception, the ordination of women ... and others.
Gregory Peck
414
Go where you are celebrated, not tolerated.
Saying
415
You can't defeat the demons you enjoy playing with.
tumblr
416
Make money with what you already know.
tumblr
417
I've wasted so much time becoming nothing.
tumblr
418
And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
tumblr
419
You can’t calm the storm so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.
Timber Hawkeye
tumblr
420
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.
Salvador Dalí
421
Except it’s not, to me or to other Puerto Ricans so thirsty to see themselves represented on screen they might collapse from dehydration.
Daily Beast Assistant Managing Editor Mandy Velez wrote in a column about West Side Story.
422
Your last point is enlightened.
Reddit
423
IDGAF
I don't give a fuck.
424
Vulnerability is like a connector... it connects you to the rest of the world.
Phil Stutz
425
One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.
Sylvia Plath
426
axis mundi
The Latin term for the axis of Earth between the celestial poles.
a perceived center of the world, where Heaven and Earth are connected
sacred space
427
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
428
I’m not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I’m saying it helps.
Walter Mosley, novelist
429
Some things are best mended by a break.
Edith Wharton
430
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
Frederick Douglass
431
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
Unknown
432
Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.
Donald Trump in 2017. Frederick Douglass died in 1895.
433
The only time we waste is the time we spend
thinking we are alone.
Mitch Albom
434
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
435
prêt-à-manger
ready to eat
436
not get a word in edgewise
disapproval that one does not have the opportunity to speak because another is talking so much.
437
We used to say, “If you must call a policeman”— for we hardly ever did—“for God’s sake, try to make sure it’s a White one.” A Black policeman could completely demolish you. He knew far more about you than a White policeman could and you were without defenses before this Black brother in uniform whose entire reason for breathing seemed to be his hope to offer proof that, though he was Black, he was not Black like you.
James Baldwin
438
Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.
Anne Truitt, an American sculptor of the mid-20th century
439
Nothing wants to stand in front of anything that is relentless.
David Goggins
440
Books are investments. Be glad to put in your money.
Ryan Holiday
441
The clacking of tongues
Marcus Aurelius- That's all public praise is.
442
a quake book
a book that literally shakes everything I thought you knew about the world- a term coined by Tyler Cowen, economist and author
443
aesthetically challenged
ugly
444
political, not sensical
Laura Coates describing the Chinese satellite balloon
445
It’s Greek what you’re going through.
You are having an unbelievably difficult time
446
It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.
Georgia O'Keeffe
447
shoah memoir
Holocaust memoir
shoah is Hebrew for Holocaust
448
Romantic love — I'm not knocking it at all — but… romantic love usually in marriage will last not more than 18 months
Dr. Edith Eger
449
Would you like to be married to you?
Dr. Edith Eger
450
Bucharest Nine
A group of eastern flank NATO Allies
451
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
452
Let's hold that point/thought/musing in abeyance.
Ari Melber
453
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis
Times are changed; we, too, are changed within them.
454
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Marcus Garvey
455
useful idiot
a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda It is one task of the KGB [in 1982] to apply its skills of secrecy and deception to projecting the Soviet party's influence.
456
In competition, individual ambition serves the common good.
Adam Smith
457
Pareto optimality
No change of strategies can make someone better off without simultaneously making someone else worse off.
458
Backup and recovery is a lesson we all have to make. It's a hard life lesson.
Mark Snyder, systems administrator, University of North Carolina
459
Patience is a virtue, the love of luxury (before you’ve earned it) is death, and your choices have a ripple effect more far-reaching than you’d think.
anonymous
460
We have to put our public protection needs before our recreational wants.
Public servant about the Michigan State University mass shooting on 2/13/2023.
461
Be loving and you will never want for love.
Dinah Craik, English novelist and poet
462
click, run
Humans have certain behaviors locked-in or wired, when the relevant trigger occurs, they go into a pre-programmed or fixed-action pattern of behavior – as if programmed to act without thinking like robots.
463
To fail to understand that life is going to knock you down is to fail to understand the Irishness of life.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
464
Don’t let the highs feel too high, and don’t let the lows feel too low.
Guiding spirit for the Biden Administration
465
Something which we think is
impossible now is not impossible in
another decade.
Constance Baker Motley
466
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer, American moral and social philosopher.
467
People seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.
Robert Cialdini
468
I never practice, I always play.
Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist and pianist
469
last f–kable day.
The point after which you become unattractive coined by Amy Schumer
470
What will live in history is the good work done by the individual & that has nothing to do with rank or title
Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (born Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
471
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, an 18th Century English painter who specialized in portraits.
472
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce
473
Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before.
C.S. Lewis
474
He who agrees against his will is of the same opinion still.
Samuel Butler
475
shot across the bow
a statement or gesture intended to frighten someone into changing their course of action.
476
heart of hearts
a place where one cannot fool oneself.
a place where none of our justifications, none of our rationalizations penetrate.
477
If we have no peace, it's because we have forgotten that we belong to one another.
Mother Teresa
478
If you can't make your case to the audience with facts, sing it to them.
An old advertising adage
479
We all admire the wisdom of those who have come to us for advice.
Benjamin Franklin
480
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Saul Bellow
481
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
482
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
Andrew Carnegie
483
Novels are empathy machines.
Angus Fletcher, author
484
The reality-based community
people who base judgments on facts
485
In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost
486
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo
487
Intelligence is the hardy weed that survives the frost, while beauty, as the saying goes, is the bloom that falls off the rose.
Carlyn Beccia
488
Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.
Kurt Schwitters, German artist
489
above-the-line
the list of individuals who guide and influence the creative direction, process, and voice of a given narrative in a film and related expenditures. These roles include but are not limited to the screenwriter, producer, director, and actors.
490
Like a master diamond cutter, love sees the potential for beauty more than beauty itself.
Carlyn Becchia
491
The specter of an unlived life is probably the thing I’m most afraid of.
Jeremy Strong, actor
492
I wish I had a more interesting backstory. But we can’t choose our origins.
KJG
493
I would see ways in which people stop themselves or succumb to our own inner resistance. That resistance I saw as the enemy.
Jeremy Strong, actor
494
This place doesn’t accept my form of currency.
Jeremy Strong, actor
495
15 minutes of shame- with a long tail
Jeremy Strong, actor
496
The shadow is the part of ourselves that we don’t want to share with the world and we want to disavow. The part of me that is striving. The part of me that wants what I want.
Jeremy Strong, actor
497
“Against the current is the way forward.”
Pietro Boselli
498
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
499
differently abled students and sexual minorities
handicapped, LGBTQ,
500
If what I say is wrong (because it is illogical or lacks credible scientific evidence), then it is my problem. If what I say offends you, it is your problem.
The tagline of evolutionary psychologist Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa's article: "Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?" He also wrote other bogus stuff.
501
sticky wicket
sticky thicket
a difficult or delicate problem or situation.
a difficult circumstance.
a situation requiring delicate treatment; an awkward situation
502
carte blanche
complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best.
503
toponymic surname
a surname derived from a place name. This can include specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or of lands that they held, or can be more generic, derived from topographic features.
504
And with everyone super, no one will be.
Syndrome, “The Incredibles”
505
Fear always works.
Dawn Bellwether, “Zootopia”
506
A lesson needs to be learned here.
Claude Frollo, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
507
crucible event
a transformative experience through which an individual comes to a new or an altered sense of identity.
508
You can often tell a good marriage by the number of teeth marks on your tongue.
Steve Roberts, Cokie's widower about biting your tongue to keep the peace.
509
Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance.
Christian Dior
510
The shoe that fits one
person pinches another;
there is no recipe for
living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
511
husband cute
Being attractive enough to marry in regards to specific categories such as personality, character, specific physical attributes, but not necessarily what one would call "hott" or "sexy".
512
adrift in traffic
in a traffic jam
513
unity in the community
514
wax and wane
to grow stronger and then weaker again
515
"as soon as practicable" vs "as soon as is practicable"
"as soon as practicable" is more than 10 times more popular than "as soon as is practicable". However, "as soon as is practicable" is more popular in legal documents, such as law, contracts and etc.
516
In the dark, all cats are grey.
Benjamin Franklin once tried to convince his son to find an older mistress with this astute reasoning.
517
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants.
Henry David Thoreau
518
grace note
a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.
519
Stop pretending to be. Just be.
Medium contributor Alberto Garcia's grandfather
520
of the first order
excellent or considerable of its kind.
521
The only thing we can do is
honestly learn from our falls.
Ai Weiwei, Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist.
522
That's a quality, not a fault.
Charles Dance, when referred to as a ladies' man.
523
no smoke (I have no smoke)
popularized in Atlanta, Georgia to reference beef. The term “smoke” is slang meaning “conflict”, “beef” or “heat.” The expression “no smoke” is slang meaning the opposition wants “no conflict” or “no beef.”
524
le soir
ce soir
the evening
tonight
525
We must believe that we are gifted for something.
Marie Curie
526
heavy going
pretty heavy going
difficult or boring to deal with.
something dull, laborious or difficult to do
527
Character. Intelligence.
Strength. Style. That
makes beauty.
Diane von Fürstenberg
528
Johnny Carson
In show business, you can be the center of attention without being yourself.
529
Once you’ve destroyed your intrinsic value, what remains is worthless.
British commentator about Harry and Meghan
530
Life is not lived to be safe, that alcohol helps people bond, mate, and reproduce, that alcohol encourages people to fight and fighting drives civilization forward. That men and women should work hard and then play hard, the Greeks had their Dionysia and the Romans their Bacchanalia, and we should too.
Marc Andreessen, technology blogger
531
It's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like
you anyway.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian writer
532
They demand nothing of the reader and every page has the promise of a happy ending.
Ari Shapiro discussing his love for cookbooks.
533
Alcohol is a legacy drug.
Elon Musk
534
Once you acknowledge that alcohol is poison, it’s fine to drink a little. The trade is a small amount of health for an even smaller amount of fun, but that’s not crazy to do once in a while with friends.
Marc Andreessen, technology blogger
535
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
536
Even at a Mensa convention someone is the dumbest person in the room.
Zen Master
537
If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em.
John Waters
538
Me with my hand outstretched, hoping someone will take it.
Aretha Franklin describing her mission as a singer
539
la commedia è finita
the farce is over! (Pagliacci's celebrated final line)
the comedy is finished!
540
l have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.
B. Smith
541
You don’t attract what you want. You attract who you are.
Saying
542
Our relationships are mirrors. They only reflect who we are.
Saying
543
amo ergo sum
I love, Therefore, I am –
544
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
545
You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?
Diana Vreeland
546
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
547
The only more powerful than my self-hatred is my vanity.
KPG
548
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
Madame de Sévigné, a 17th Century French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing.
549
We are all products of our context.
Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All At Once
550
Like happy people, the omelette has no past
Saying
551
The American ideal is perfect, but that “the American conscience would like a rest from the black man’s ghost.
Anna Julia Cooper, Black feminist and scholar in a 1902 speech.
552
He is discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is the lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.
Frederick Douglass
553
This is not about persuasion: This is about disorientation.
Jonathan Rauch, citing Bannon’s infamous quote about flooding the media with nonsense
554
Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself.
Unknown
555
If someone does not want me, it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
Nayyirah Waheed
556
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Carl Gustav Jung
557
Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Oscar Wilde
558
Attraction is not a choice.
David De Angelo
559
Divisions between un-likeminded people is as old as time itself.
Steven Spielberg
560
You can’t appease the unappeasable.
Saying
561
Terrible messenger delivering a terrible message.
Dan Abrams talking about Karrine Jean-Pierre’s interview with Chris Hayes.
562
suo marte
by one's own exertions : without help from others.
(motto of Wilberforce University)
563
Compassion is an unstable
emotion. It needs to be
translated into action, or it
withers.
Susan Sontag
564
A film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk.
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian describing the film Grace of Monaco.
565
Going all Christopher Coumbus.
Acting like you discovered something that was there all along.
566
Whiteness is never content with victory. It demands your gratitude for living in the world it’s created. To sit in a moment of pain or sorrow and smile, to clap for being allowed in the room at all.
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
@RevJacquiLewis (Twitter)
567
Pot meet kettle.
Pot calling the kettle black.
That's a bit pot kettle.
Used to highlight a situation in which a person accuses someone of or criticizes someone for something of which they themselves are guilty.
Used to draw attention to hypocrisy.
568
reproductive, rather than a productive thinker
self-flagellating idea that everyone one does is copied
569
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
The chalice in the palace has the brew that is true.
Danny Kaye in the "Court Jester" 1955
570
cut-crystal
The term crystal is often used to refer to glassware that has a more elegant form than the normal or everyday glassware. However, that is not the official difference between the two. Actually, there is no official clean cut definition of crystal.
(e.g. cut crystal accent, cut crystal class, etc.
571
In America Negroes do not have to be told what fascism is. We know.
The poet and activist Langston Hughes told this to an audience in the 1930s.
572
When you don’t know who you are, you will become someone you’re not.
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
573
How you see yourself determines how you see your future.
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
574
Someone deserves dignity and respect even when they are unwilling to give it to themselves.
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
575
We shouldn’t judge people who are doing things that we don’t agree with, we should love them even more deliberately.
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
576
It is love that builds relationships. It is love that breaks down barriers and open hearts. Never hate.
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
577
We connect more through out vulnerabilities than through our victories (That’s why people naturally root for the underdog).
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
578
If we only try to connect based on what we’ve done or the victories we’ve won, we forfeit the opportunity to have the most meaningful relationships.
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
579
The most powerful thing we can say to ourselves is I AM. The most powerful thing we can say to others is YOU ARE.
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
580
As long as there is breath in the body, there is hope for the soul.
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
581
When I am judgmental, I’m never curious. And when I am curious I am never judgemental.
Doug Stewart, 7 Lessons I Learned From A Porn Star
582
We come nearest to the great when we are great in
humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
583
True friendship
withstands time,
distance, and silence.
Isabel Allende
584
not a cute look
KPG
585
hilltop of red flags
lots of warning signs
586
I can tap into (my personal experience) to see where you're coming from
trying to understand someone else's perspective
587
She shut us up so quick you could hear a rat piss on cotton.
Someone describing Ella Fitzgerald's debut at the Apollo Theater.
588
in sum; in a nutshell; in toto; in essence;
in summation; in sum;
briefly
synonyms
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/in_summary.html
589
Zeigarnik effect
when an activity that has been interrupted may be more readily recalled. It postulates that people remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
590
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
Albert Einstein
591
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd, second president, and chair of the board, of Marshall Field & Company. Shedd Aquarium is named after him.
592
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad
593
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
Joseph Campbell
594
An interloper trespassing on your terrain.
When someone without your expertise offers advice in your field.
595
Problems that are impossible to solve with one paradigm may be easily solved with a different one.
Joel Barker, Futurist, Author, Lecturer, Film Maker
596
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi
597
on the back foot
In a defensive posture; off-balance.
598
mind the gap
Famous phrase that is said at the London Underground warning people who use the subway to be wary of the gap between the train and the platform.
599
The world won't give you any gifts. If you want to
have a life, steal it.
Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-born psychoanalyst
600
The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism.
Haruki Murakami
601
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde, poet, essayist, and activist
602
If some aspect of your deepest identity is marginalized, loathed, or bullied — as it is for fat people — then you are in definitional danger. Which is to say, you are almost certainly being destructively defined by others.
Savala Nolan
603
The experiences of Blackness differ as much as they cohere.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
604
Hilarity ensues.
From the days of newspaper TV Guides that would write two sentence synopses (loglines) of a television show. Sometimes these summaries wouldn't sound comedic on the surface, so "hilarity ensues" was used to ensure the audience understood it was a premise for a comedy.
605
We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well.
Oliver Sacks, British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
606
It is a gothic desire, to be objectified so totally that all of your Blackness and bigness disappears.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
607
white patriarchal gaze
Tressie McMillan Cottom
608
All I wanted was for her to be my peace. I just wanted a wife.
Like women, men want to be protected and safe.
https://medium.com/sexography/my-ex-taught-me-what-men-truly-want-in-a-wife-by-accident-a552d4933003
609
regression to the mean
how something that is extreme on a first measurement will become less extreme, or regress to the mean, on a second measurement.
610
Hogging the mic
dominating the conversation
611
off my square
out of my usual routine; doing things I wouldn't normally do.
not in harmony, order, or agreement
612
We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
Marcel Proust
613
The best way to get what you want is by deserving it.
aphorism often attributed to Charlie Munger
614
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of
undeserving people.
Charles T. (Charlie) Munger, Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway
615
The safest way to try and get what you want is to try and deserve what you want.
Charles T. (Charlie) Munger, Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway
616
getting caught in medias res
getting caught en flagrante
617
Suggestion is always more interesting than statement.
Noël Coward
618
We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster that we go bankrupt by the age of 30. And have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything? What a waste.
Call Me by Your Name
619
sub-
Beneath as in sub-Forster, sub-Ivory (beneath the normal standards of E.M. Forster and James Ivory
620
If you have to worry about your legacy, you don’t have one.
Shirley Franklin
621
A clean house is a sign of a misspent life
saying
622
Our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once, and before you know it, your heart is worn out. And for your body, there comes a point where no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it.
Call Me by Your Name
623
Never surrender to the flow of time. Never put off what you have decided to do.
Simone Weil
624
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
625
When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.
Kahlil Gibran
626
on the last lap
the final part of something which has taken a long time;
the last stage of something long and difficult
627
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown
628
He who laughs last, laughs best.
From John Heywood's 1546 book of proverbs,
Means even if someone is not successful now he or she will succeed or be the winner in the end.
629
You don't get the fruit if you don't have the root.
Saying. I first heard this on Finding Your Roots
630
You die twice. You die when your body dies and you die when the last person says your name.
Saying
631
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Laozi
632
Only women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally. A man is only loved under the condition that he provides something.
Chris Rock
633
amply contoured
fat
634
primus inter pares
first among equals (Latin)
635
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
636
You must believe that your
past is not your future.
Gayle Carson
637
It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
Homer Simpson
638
Face everything
Matt Higgins, Shark Tank investor
639
Action cures all.
Tom Bilyeu about
640
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut
641
jeunesse dorée
wealthy, stylish, sophisticated young people.
642
Wisdom is embodied in the metaphors we live by
643
Insights require fertile soil and a growth period
644
A genius is the one most like himself.
Thelonious Monk
645
Bring on the dessert. I think I’m about to die.
Pierrette, the sister of Brillat-Savarin, who died at table shortly before her 100th birthday.
646
Not all speed is movement.
Toni Cade Bambara, African-American author, documentary film -maker, social activist and college professor.
647
Do you want to be helped, heard or hugged?
Very smart relationship tip
648
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
Kurt Vonnegut
649
They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
Banksy, a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation.
650
I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
E.B. White
651
You can only understand people if you feel them in
yourself.
John Steinbeck
652
Suicide by snake
Cleopatra
653
When the solution to the problem is ‘they need to change,’ the problem will never go away. You can only control your side of the street.
Nedra Glover Tawwab, a therapist and best-selling author.
654
I drink coffee until it’s time to drink wine.
Coffee Keeps Me Busy Until it's Time To Drink Wine.
Saying
655
A real problem that America has — and I think it’s also what our show is about — is that America is only interested in the pursuit of individualism at the expense of community.
Brian Cox
656
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
657
I bet Ryan Gosling doesn’t even blow his candles out. He probably just winks at them and they faint.
Twitter user @smethanie about pretty privilege
658
Insecurity is always loud. Confidence is quiet.
Saying
659
Everyone needs someone/something to make them feel like tomorrow is more than just another day. Be that person.
Victor Green
660
Always Be Optimizing
Jia Tolentino's book about the relentless drive to be the ideal women (largely based on thinness)
661
Living with regrets is like driving a car that only moves in reverse.
Jodi Picoult, an American writer.
662
If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.
Paul F. Davis, a Worldwide minister, motivational speaker, and author
663
Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
August Wilson
664
The law of reversed effort
The harder you try, the harder you fall.
The more we want something, the more we push it sway.
The more we try to succeed at something, the less we shall succeed at it.
665
I have to shine my own buttons because no one else will.
Terri on Queer Eye
666
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
Willie Nelson
667
The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
Thelonious Monk
668
Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults.
James Clear, author of Atomic Habits
669
You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.
James Clear, author of Atomic Habits
670
I happen to know that my sensitivity is my strength.
Hannah Gadsby
671
Looming over them is the elephantine resident beast.
The elephant in the room.
672
We have to master our minds or our minds will master us.
The Simple Sophisticate Podcast
673
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
Bladerunner (1982)
674
A left-handed form of human endeavor.
Film director/actor John Huston's description of criminality.
675
Think different.
Steve Jobs
676
A cry, but not a beg.
Jimmy Heath discussing John Coltrane's saxophone playing.
677
Public safety is a prerequisite to prosperity.
Eric Adams to Dana Bash
678
11 with a head on top.
Carolyn Garner's daughter Kowanda describing an emaciated person.
679
The Three-Actor Rule
The maximum number of actors required for any Greek tragedy is three.
680
ritualized friendship
a bond of trust, imitating kinship and reinforced by rituals, generating affection and obligations between individuals belonging to separate social units.
681
In for a penny, in for a pound
a person should finish what he or she has started to do even though it may be difficult or expensive.
682
You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.
Source unknown.
683
The wave of habit-forming technologies is the “cigarette of this century."
Ian Bogost, the famed game creator and professor
684
Know Your No
Boundary-setting is hard, especially for women, who are taught to be people pleasers.
685
de rigueur
1. Required by the current fashion or custom; socially obligatory.
2. Necessary according to etiquette, protocol or fashion.
3. required by etiquette or usage or fashion
686
His hair gets help.
He dyes his hair.
687
Take forgiveness slowly. Don't blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.
Yoko Ono
688
Death is sitting on your shoulder and whispering to you. How much are you going to live today? Was that an alivening choice or did that actually take life away from you. How alive are you going to be? Will this decision I am about to make bring more aliveness or less?
Dr. Saida Desilets
689
If you’re saying things only because you want to get something out of someone, you’re a beggar.
Dr. Saida Desilets
690
Coffee is the whiskey of the morning.
tumblr
691
Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make yours shine any brighter.
tumblr
692
If you wake up and the day feels broken, just lean into the crack.
Björk
693
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woolcott
694
Success is a collection of problems solved.
I. M. Pei
695
sub specie aeternitatis
under the aspect of eternity
Embracing life’s events from a long-term, eternal perspective rather than just the fleeting present.
696
ménage à quatre
A household or relationship whereby four people live together as lovers. A sexual act involving four people; a foursome.
697
ménage à trois
an arrangement in which three people (such as a married couple and a lover of one member of the couple) have a sexual or romantic relationship especially while they are living together. : a sexual encounter involving three people : threesome.
698
face furniture
Barry Humphries (Dame Edna)'s term for eye glasses.
699
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern, a German writer and poet from Munich.
700
Self reminder: You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.
tumblr
701
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
Eckhart Tolle, a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author.
702
Look at your downtown and ask yourself, does it say “drive to” or “drive through?”
Christiane Lauterbach, Atlanta food critic
703
Living with people has a way of taking the edge off the extremes of belief.
Allan Gurganus, author of "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All."
704
Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
Terry Pratchett, English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.
705
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach in psychology.
706
Most people optimize for the day ahead. A few people optimize for 1-2 years ahead. Almost nobody optimizes for 3-4 years ahead (or longer).
The person who is willing to delay gratification longer than most reduces competition and gains a decisive advantage.
Patience is power.
James Clear, author of Atomic Habits
707
You have to have compassion for the past version of yourself.
KPG
708
Gives school shooter energy
KPG
709
Begging for a hate crime.
To knowingly do something that puts your life in danger.
710
Only the most broken people can be great leaders.
Wakanda Forever
711
You can visit pity city but you can’t live there.
Miller Knoll CEO when her employees complained about receiving no bonus while she received a $6.4M bonus herself.
712
Spend the time now becoming the type of person you would want to date or marry.
Benjamin Sledge, author
713
She will remember the times you made her feel loved more than the times you said, “I love you.”
tumblr
714
The U-Haul lesbian or U-Haul syndrome
a stereotype of lesbian relationships [1] referring to the idea that lesbians tend to move in together after a short period of time (e.g., after the second date). It suggests an extreme inclination toward committed relationships.
715
The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring conformity.
Tár
716
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G.K. Chesterton, English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, a literary and art critic.
717
BIPOC
Black, Indigenous, (and) People of Color
718
Movies are a machine that generates empathy.
Roger Ebert
719
Some things cannot be triumphed over unless they are first accepted and endured, because, indeed, some things cannot be triumphed over at all, the ‘story’ must be told again and again in endless pursuit of a happy ending.
Mary Gaitskill, American novelist, essayist, and short story writer
720
Pauline conversion
‘Pauline’ pronounced with the stress on the first syllable and the second syllable rhyming with ‘wine’ - is a sudden and complete change in a person’s beliefs or views about some matter of great significance: it is often the result of a single overwhelming experience or of a single argument which is felt to be compelling. Road to Damascus
721
Status–income disequilibrium (sometimes abbreviated SID)
when a desirable high status job has a relatively low income.
722
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it.
Ann Patchett
723
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anaïs Nin
724
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Cormac McCarthy
725
A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.
saying
726
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read
Abraham Lincoln
727
Bringing it out on direct.
When trial lawyers remove any surprise when an issue is raised on cross examination, providing in advance one's best explanation, and eliminating the belief that one was too afraid to address the subject.
728
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Madeleine L'Engle, merican writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.
729
Everything in the world began with a yes.
Clarice Lispector
730
I can be someone's and still be my own.
Shel Silverstein
731
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
Janis Joplin
732
I’m not upset that you lied. I’m upset that I can no longer trust you.
Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche.
733
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Leonard da Vinci
734
Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
Maya Angelou
735
black swan event
an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation and has potentially severe consequences.
736
fat-sorrow
“Sorrow alleviated by riches”—or, put another way, sadness alleviated by material things—is fat-sorrow. It’s a term best remembered from the old adage that “fat sorrow is better than lean sorrow.”
737
if you have a rule and you "cheat" every day, it's not cheating—it's a lifestyle.
saying
738
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
Val Afshar
739
I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
Muhammad Ali
740
It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life.
P.D. James, English novelist
741
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
L.M. Montgomery, Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.
742
We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy
of success.
Jamie Lee Curtis
743
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
Tennessee Williams
744
If we go for the easy way, we never change.
Marina Abramovié
745
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
746
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
747
Waving a big red matador flag in the dumb bull's face.
Red flag
748
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
John Steinbeck
749
When a man is tired of London, he’s tired of life.
old adage
750
post karma
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751
Resilience is the ability to brush off pain.
Kristen Roupenian
752
How do you know your 'unwanted sexual advance' is unwanted, until you advance it?
Donald Trump tweet from 2015
753
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anybody else to feel like that.
Robin Williams
754
The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives.
Esther Perel relationship expert
755
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
François de La Rochefoucauld
756
Jealousy contains more of self-love than love.
François de La Rochefoucauld
757
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
758
Don't move the way fear makes you move.
Rumi
759
Be truthful, but not neutral. Bothsidesism …does not get you to the truth. Drawing false moral or factual equivalence is neither objective or truthful.
Christiane Amanpour
760
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Quintus Sertorius, Roman general and statesman
761
I am all the things I have ever loved.
Toni Morrison
762
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing
unexpected happens.
Fay Weldon, English author, essayist and playwright.
763
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
764
I'm not here to be your friend. My job is to get you through. To make you conscious of the world around you. To teach lessons that can carry over.
Ta-Nehisi Coates's father's guiding principle
765
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
William Gibson
The Economist, December 4, 2003”
766
After we terrorize ourselves with self-doubt, our only relief is to get moving again.
Twyla Tharp
767
You don't meet the people you love, you recognize them.
Anna Gavalda, French teacher and award-winning novelist
768
Fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru
769
A lot of good things don't get made because of too much thinking.
Agnes Martin, American abstract painter
770
With just a word or a phrase, a poem can reach the hidden places that prayers or well-meaning advice cannot.
Josie Glausiusz, columnist
771
Think freely. Practice patience. Smile often. Forgive and seek forgiveness.
Dr. Charlie White, who lived to be 109 years old.
772
Feel deeply. Tell loved ones how you feel.
Dr. Charlie White, who lived to be 109 years old.
773
Be soft sometimes. Cry when you need to. Observe miracles.
Dr. Charlie White, who lived to be 109 years old.
774
Be yourself; they’ll adjust.
Darvel Desroches FB post
775
Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another...
REO Speedwagon
776
Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend.
Benjamin Disraeli
777
I wasn't drunk every day, but I drank every day.
Elaine Stritch
778
That's the ticket
That's just right; that's just what is needed.
779
You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
780
Reach out your hand if your cup be empty, if your cup is full may it be again.
Robert Hunter
781
The dose makes the poison.
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.
A substance can produce the harmful effect associated with its toxic properties only if it reaches a susceptible biological system within the body.
782
alternatives exclude
Whenever you begin a task of any kind, you are consciously or unconsciously deciding not to do any other task that you could do at that moment.
783
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.
Charlie Chaplin
784
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes Creator
785
No answer is also an answer.
German proverb
786
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
The person who makes too many excuses because he is probably covering up his ill actions. It is better to admit a thing frankly than to make excuse, for the excuses are such obvious evasions that they irritate instead of convincing.
787
The whiter the bread, the sooner you'll be dead.
Michael Pollan
788
Journalism is about fighting for the best version of the truth.
Carl Bernstein
789
It’s very difficult to remodel a house that’s on fire.
About CNN
790
It’s very difficult to remodel a house that’s on fire.
About CNN
791
When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
Franklin Leonard, an American film executive best known for founding The Black List, [1] a yearly publication featuring Hollywood's most popular unproduced screenplays.
792
Racism can cripple the imagination.
Allison Wiltz, Medium womanist scholar
793
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
Carl Rogers
794
If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a
folding chair.
Shirley Chisholm
795
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
Randy Pausch, who gave Last Lecture and died of pancreatic cancer.
796
Don’t be so eager to be offended.
Lydia Tár
797
Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart.
Brené Brown
798
I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.
Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer
799
Waiting for Godot
waiting for something that never happens or someone who never comes
800
it factor
the factor that transcends a person's looks and makes them even more attractive and desirable than someone who is just conventionally attractive.
801
Too many of us are not living
our dreams because we are
living our fears.
Les Brown
Too many of us are not living
our dreams because we are
living our fears.
Les Brown
802
We can smile and relax. Everything we want is right here in the present moment.
Thích Nhât Hanh, Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism.
803
Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
Byron Katie
804
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.
Leave beautiful women to men with no imagination.
Marcel Proust
805
I will make my life. I will carve it with care.
Dolores del Río
806
The truth matters only if you can see it.
Unknown
807
When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.
Haruki Murakami
808
There is no such thing as inevitable progress.
Anne Gordon Reed
809
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
Derek Bok
810
A well built physique is a status symbol. It reflects you worked hard for it, no money can buy it. You cannot borrow it, you cannot inherit it, you cannot steal it. You cannot hold onto it without constant work. It’s from dedication, discipline, self-respect, and dignity.
Ashley Horner, fitness model
811
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness - it has no taste.
Charlotte Bronte
811
Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Henry Miller
812
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Romain Rolland
813
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
814
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
815
Discipline morphs into habit.
Twyla Tharp
816
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
817
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
Carter G. Woodson
818
Remember that's you walking down the street, not your socks.
Cary Grant's father advising him to dress in an understated manner.
819
Simplicity to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
Cary Grant
820
It is better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.
Elias Leach, Cary Grant’s father
821
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
822
A wise man doesn't love a million women. He loves one woman a million ways.
Anonymous
823
Time is how you spend your love.
Nick Laird
824
The way to make people trustworthy is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
825
In quietness the soul expands.
Rockwell Kent
826
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
Criss Jami
827
Unfortunately, as a society we worship validation more than we worship authentic happiness.
Sanni Lark, Medium
828
The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.
Vala Afshar
829
The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy.
William Carlos Williams
830
Deo non fortuna
By god, not by luck
By god, not by chance
831
I learned that a friend may be waiting behind a
stranger's face.
Maya Angelou
832
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
Walt Whitman
833
When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in
Haruki Murakami
834
Proust syndrome
I read the first fifty pages, but lost interest.
835
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be
untaught.
Ai Weiwei
836
Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
837
Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
Paulo Coelho
838
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
839
The Authoritarian Bargain
Donald Trump with financial and Christian elites
840
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
Eugene lonesco
841
All experience is great providing you live through it.
Alice Neel
842
We can always begin again.
Sharon Salzberg
843
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread.
Ursula K. Le Guin
844
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
845
As in all cases where imagination is corrected by experience, imagination is killed.
Idk
846
Believe in who you are and never let the world change who you are.
The Lady Chablis
847
Love yourself first and respect yourself first and others will love and respect you.
The Lady Chablis
848
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is.
William Blake
849
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake
850
A talent grows by being used, and withers if it is not used.
May Sarton
851
It’s not a lie…if you believe it.
George Costanza
852
Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The
best comes from them.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
853
Sex is like math: you add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs and pray you don't multiply.
Tony Reeves (Author)
854
All people smile in the same language.
Everyone smiles in the same language
Saying
George Carlin
855
There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them–I prefer talking to them.
Gianni Agnelli
856
You could be a good husband and fool around, or a very bad husband and be fidel.
Gianni Agnelli
857
Happiness is not about getting what you want. It is more about wanting what you get.
Saying
858
Yester is the prefix that we fix to things that have gone by. Forever they say
Smokey Robinson
859
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
860
A jury consists of 12 persons who are not smart enough to get off a jury.
A comedian
861
The seed to every character you will ever play is already inside you.
Sandy Meisner
862
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
Fred Rogers
863
I was told that there will be no math.
Chevy Chase
864
They always say time changes things, but you
actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
865
I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies—which I once thought of as totally unique—turn out to be clichés.
Nora Ephron
866
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach
867
Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee
868
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.
Joseph Pilates
869
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.
Frida Kahlo
870
Those who deny freedom to others,
deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln, Statesman, Future U.S. President, 1858
871
They will vanish like vapor ... their very history will be lost in forgetfulness.
Elias Boudinot, Editor, The Cherokee Phoenix, 1826
872
Power is like being a lady; if you have to say you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
873
History is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past.
James Baldwin
874
Quelle bonne surprise!
What a nice surprise!
875
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
EM. Forster
876
In life, there are big events and small events. And sometimes, at the end of life, they weigh the same.
Meryl Streep
877
hari hachi bu
a Confucian teaching that instructs people to eat until they are 80 percent full. The Japanese phrase translates to, "Eat until you are eight parts (out of ten) full", or "belly 80 percent full"
878
signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise
879
If you do care about the same questions, it doesn’t necessarily matter if you arrive at the same answers.
Kathryn Schulz, American journalist and author
880
My job is not to not die. My job is to live.
Sari de la Motte
881
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
882
Your path is at your feet whether you realize it or not.
Agnes Martin
883
rigmarole
1. A lengthy and complicated procedure.
2. A long, rambling story or statement.
884
When we lose someone we miss the person they were and not their suffering.
Kathy Colbenson's father
885
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
886
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
887
Minute by minute. Grief is personal to you.
Charlotte King
888
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
889
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
890
Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.
Barbara Kean, a character on the Gotham tv series
891
Every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter her age, shape, size, or color.
Camilla Franks, Australian fashion designer
892
I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
James Dyson
893
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe
894
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian and pianist
895
Politics brings people together who have a mutual agenda, whether it's personal or professional. The combination is like putting two chemicals in a jar where you don't really know what the response is going to be — like in a chem lab in high school.
Lou Ellen Barkan , chief of staff to former NYC deputy mayor in Rudy Giuliani's administration
896
Ultimately, art is trying to see things that other
people don't see.
Trevor Paglen, American artist and geographer
897
When best is better, good isn't good enough.
Maynard Jackson
898
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome
899
The ultimate luxury in life remains nature.
Robert Rabensteiner, Stylist and former fashion editor-at-large of L'Uomo Vogue
900
Reading as resistance
Velshi Banned Book Club
901
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your
worthiness.
Brené Brown
902
We are all born naked, and the rest is just drag.
RuPaul
903
You lose a lot of time, hating people.
Marian Anderson
904
Men dream of women. Women dream of themselves being dreamt of. Men Look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
John Berger, “Women in Art,” Ways of Seeing, BBC 1972
905
When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong.
Benjamin Hoff
906
Everything in the world is about sex - except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar Wilde
907
I want to be as powerful as humanly possible. And I want you to be so powerful that I feel small in your arms.
Lisa Bilyeu
908
I only do and believe that which moves me to my goals.
Tom Bilyeu
909
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker
910
If we emphasize the genius of the few and concentrate only on the exceptional, we misunderstand what the tradition was all about.
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
911
We study cultures far away as anthropology. We don't study them purely for their explanations of themselves.
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
912
You become a more positive, peaceful and harmonic person when you don't react to people that use you as a mirror for their own self-hate.
Soul Vibes (Adam Davis)
913
Everybody kneels before something
Tom Bilyeu
914
Everybody kneels before something
Tom Bilyeu
915
In the absence of God, people scramble for popular ideals and try to identify or over-identify with them as a way of virtue signaling
Dr. Sadia Khan, psychologist
916
A white woman who couldn’t vote could still own a black slave.
Dr. Sadia Khan, psychologist
917
The truth is never offended by reality
Dr. Sadia Khan, psychologist
918
You have to have confidence in your vision or else no one else will trust in it.
Mary Katrantzou, Greek fashion designer
919
Thor's hammer
a game changer; a technology that changes everything
a symbol of protection and power
920
If you don’t have five minutes to meditate, you’re the person who is most in need of meditation.
Saying
921
A dancer who is counting the steps in his head rather than someone who is actually feeling the music
Ron Steslow
922
Let’s have a moment of silent meditation.
Norman Fuqua
923
Vogue is a potent drug women get lost in. We are making more than magazines, we are making the most addictive substance there is — the dream.
Diana Vreeland spoke explicitly of creating dreams in Vogue, wanting to transport her reader to a reality where she could order an elk-hide trunk from Hermes.
924
uncircumcised lips
Moses's metaphorical way of expressing his perceived inadequacy as a speaker when God directs him to go to Pharaoh and demand that he let the Israelites go free.
925
Pressure is a privilege.
Billie Jean King
926
No, not one.
Ernest Vandiver, 73rd governor of Georgia (1959 -1963)
No, not one," meaning not one black child in a white school.
927
manna from heaven
If you say that something unexpected is manna from heaven, you mean that it is good and happened just at the time that it was needed.
928
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
929
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Eckhart Tolle
930
931
Failure is information
Catherine Sanderson (Poler Family Professor and chair of the psychology department at Amherst College)
932
Failure is information
Catherine Sanderson (Poler Family Professor and chair of the psychology department at Amherst College)
933
Every time we make a plan, God laughs.
Saying
934
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck, “Once There Was a War”
935
Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown Jr., self-help author
936
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams
937
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift, Anglo Irish satirist and author
938
ordinary miracles and ordinary disasters
In his memoir, Martin Amis, who died this year, wrote about births and deaths as “ordinary miracles and ordinary disasters.” (In the ordinary miracle, two people enter a room and three come out; in the ordinary disaster, one person enters a room and none come out.)
939
What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.
Masami Saionji
940
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas.
Anselm Kiefer
941
play with house money
To be in a situation where little or no personal risk can be incurred. To act as though little or no risk can be incurred.
942
If anything is worth doing it is worth doing in style, and on your own terms, and nobody's Goddamned else's!
Lucius Beebe
943
bring (something) into sharp relief
throw something into high relief
bring/throw something into relief
To cause something to stand out sharply or be vividly visible or noticeable. Often used in passive constructions.
to make something very noticeable, or to be very noticeable sharp/stark relief
to make something very clear and easy to notice
944
Almost every man has either secretly or patently some feeling for clothes and would indulge his fancy far more lavishly and colorfully were it not for the jealousy, usually expressed in the form of sarcasm, by the women he encounters… No woman can stand seeing a man as well or painstakingly dressed as herself.
Lucius Beebe
945
The last part of every party is not the best.
Lucius Beebe describing old age
946
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Rachel Carson
947
Life is not what one lived but what one remembers and how one remembers it.
Gabriel García Márquez
948
Build a team so strong no one can point out the leader.
Saying
949
Know your place in people's lives and act accordingly. It's not pride, it's self-respect.
Two things you don't fight for "True Love and
True Friends". They come naturally.
Saying
950
If you chose a sausage for its casing, don't be surprised when the mystery meat gives you the runs.
Carlyn Beccia about choosing people for superficial reasons.
951
It’s the unresolved things that end up driving us more than things we’ve made peace with.
952
You get better results as a journalist if you are a blank slate to the person you’re talking to and they can project whatever they want onto you.
Anderson Cooper
953
I try to worry about stuff I actually have my hands on.
Anderson Cooper
954
For me, the solution was to focus on what I had control over.
Anderson Cooper
955
You don't own anything. Everything you own owns you.
A wise Ukraine born refugee
956
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson, English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
957
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono
958
The worst is not that one gets burned, but that the flame goes out.
Natalie Clifford Barney in “Women Lovers, or The Third Woman,” 1926
959
If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.
Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license, in 1921
960
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.
Miles Davis
961
Shortening the time between diagnoses and recovery.
Margaret Trudeau discussing mental illness
962
Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.
E.B. White
963
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Richard Feynman, Nobel prize winning American theoretical physicist
964
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Rumi, the poet
965
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
966
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Nelson Mandela
967
Do not put out your fire because someone else doesn't understand your flame.
GirlBeBrave saying
968
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
Ursula K. Le Guin
969
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed.
Bill Watterson
970
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
971
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows
flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
972
Some believe that it is only great power can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I found that it is the small things. Everyday deeds by ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay.
Gandalf from Lord of the Rings
973
Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought.
Márcus Aurelius
974
To be a devout Christian or a believing Jew or Muslim is to be a bit like a conspiracy theorist, in the sense that you believe there is an invisible reality that secular knowledge can’t recognize.
Ross Douthat, American political analyst, blogger, author and New York Times columnist.
975
Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.
Carrie Mae Weems
976
They're not new to it. They're true to it.
CBG about the ΩΨΦ's hazing
977
We don’t consider ourselves to be a vegan restaurant. We are an amazing restaurant that admires and appreciates that there are hundreds of types of fruits and vegetables that give us the ability to be far more creative than with the dozen-or-so animal proteins people typically cook with.
Steven Salm, Planta founder and CEO
978
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert, 17th-century poet and English clergyman known for both his wit and his principles.
979
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Many people, including:
Stevie Wonder, Charlotte Whitton
980
Let me tell you what I wish I'd known
When I was young and dreamed of glory
You have no control
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story
Linn Manuel-Miranda, Hamilton
981
A perfect woman in art can prove banal in reality, like a photograph in Playboy. The most beautiful women in art, like Mona Lisa herself, were ugly in real life. There are those who see the monstrous in my work, but my work is what it is.
Fernando Botero
982
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood
recovered at will.
Charles Baudelaire, French poet, essayist, art critic and translator.
983
Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.
Anne Truitt
984
We go through life.
We shed our skins.
We become ourselves.
Patti Smith, American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate"
985
I want to find meaning in this life rather than worrying about the next one.
Alan Alda
986
Another person’s beauty is not the absence of your own
Unknown
987
There is only one proof of ability - action.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 19th-century Austrian writer
988
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Thomas Paine
989
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we
remember it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
990
It’s such a terrible thing when a voice goes unheard. I have seen so many voices die.
Joon Park, chaplain at Tampa General Hospital
991
I have learned, in all my time with all my patients, each of us hold a story and must be given a voice. In the telling there is healing.
Joon Park, chaplain at Tampa General Hospital
992
When I sit with someone now, I’m with them completely. Phone is down. I’m here right now with you, because this could be our last conversation.
Joon Park, chaplain at Tampa General Hospital
993
This is almost an empathic anticipatory grief, experiencing the grief of the other person’s future loss. We are so connected that often we worry about how other people will be affected by our own death.
Joon Park, chaplain at Tampa General Hospital
994
If smoking weed makes you paranoid and anxious, that’s because you approached the joint with impure thoughts and a heavy karmic debt.
tweet
995
Oily disingenuousness
Retiring Romney unleashes on GOP colleagues
996
My only consolation when I am really sad is to
love and to be loved.
Marcel Proust
997
Are we no more than the sum of our worst moments?
Are we the sum of our worst moments?
Saying
998
They “man up” until they can’t. Then it’s man down.
Women attempt suicide 20% more often than men, but men are more successful at it.
999
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
Gloria Steinem
1000
Businesses owned by women of color are the most founded but least funded.
Ayana Parsons, Cheif Operating Officer of Fearless Fund
1001
The challenge for the press is to figure out how to be louder than the liars. I don’t think this is taking a side.
Brian Stelter
1002
Following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.[
Anne Rice
1003
Driving is the most dangerous thing we do.
Bryan Johnson, the man who thinks he can live forever
1004
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
1005
Let's put a pin in it.
Put a pin in it.
Hold onto that thought/idea and we'll come back to it later.
1006
The math isn't mathing.
When something just doesn't add up.
1007
The math is mathing.
Something is right or reasonable; something adds up or makes sense.
1008
To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
1009
Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.
Olafur Eliasson
1010
If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
Betty White
1011
feel some kind of way.
To be obviously upset by something; having obvious negative feelings about a situation is to be feeling some kind of way.
1012
feel no kind of way
To simply not care
1013
Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
Lesser artists borrow. Great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
Picasso/Steven Jobs
Igor Stravinsky
1014
Bad faith changes everything.
Sam Harris to Brett Weinstein, meaning that when you are not dealing with good faith actors, you need to be aware of the costs of giving them the benefit of the doubt where no honest doubt remains.
1015
Trying to sneak the rabbit into the hat.
Saying
1016
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned in life: It goes on.
Robert Frost
1017
A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!
They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat.
They tried to kill us, they failed, let’s eat.
Many, including Alan King
1018
A hit dog will holler.
An offended or defensive response to a statement suggests that the statement applies to the person complaining.
1019
Success is like failure .. It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
Stephen Sondheim
1020
Gilding the lily.
There is no need to embellish something that is already special to begin with.
1021
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1022
scrape the bottom of the barrel
let out the bottom of the barrel
to use the worst people or things because that is all that is available:
1023
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
1024
Murder is his love language.
Sam Reid discussing Lestat de Lioncourt
1025
Make sure to do the inner work first before you ever look at a color palette or a website design because that is what should inform all of those outward decisions in your brand.
Kaye Putnam, psychology-driven brand strategist
1026
The more mouths, the more talk.
Ancient urdu saying
1027
God does not build a protective fence around my life, keep me from trouble, fulfill my personal desires, or guarantee my success. the former president wrote. However, through prayer, God offers me comfort, reassurance, satisfaction, courage, hope, and peace.
Jimmy Carter
1028
God does not build a protective fence around my life, keep me from trouble, fulfill my personal desires, or guarantee my success. the former president wrote. However, through prayer, God offers me comfort, reassurance, satisfaction, courage, hope, and peace.
Jimmy Carter
1029
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
Ray Bradbury
1030
Constructive criticism is still criticism.
James Sexton, divorce lawyer
1031
I wish I knew no astronomy when stars appear.
Joseph Brodsky. Sometimes when you know how things end, all you see is the ending.
1032
It's great to be married sometimes. The problem is you're married all the time.
James Sexton, divorce lawyer
1033
They went for the capillary, not the jugular.
David Axelrod, discussing the 2024 Republican presidential debate.
1034
You don’t have to be malicious to uphold oppression, by the way, but the impact you make means more than your intent.
Lindley Ashline, artist and fat activist
1035
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
1036
grand narrative
1037
There have been a few turnings of the wheel since …
1038
what has become of his thinking in modern hands
1039
Money talks, but wealth whispers.
Saying
1040
hot take
Too hot a take
1041
There will be plenty of time for the business of grief.
Saying
1042
Giving up the ghost
when something (seldom do we use it of someone these days) no longer is in working condition.
Literally, to release one's spirit or soul from the body at death.
1043
Pilgrim’s Progress
Sam Harris reference
1044
Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.
Gail Honeyman, American writer
1045
If you’re explaining, you’re losing.
Ronald Reagan
1046
It's a privilege to teach yourself about racism rather than experiencing it.
Protest sign
1047
Conservatives treat the word racism as the equivalent to the N-word, a vicious pejorative rather than a descriptive term.
Jean Latting, a DEI consultant
1048
The quo you get for the quid you got.
KJG
1049
q.e.d.
Which was to be demonstrated
Definition. Latin abbreviation for quod erat demonstrandum: "Which was to be demonstrated." Q.E.D. may appear at the conclusion of a text to signify that the author's overall argument has just been proven.
1050
The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.
Brené Brown
1051
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
1052
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
Earl Nightingale
1053
When we are dancing with the angels
When we're dead and gone
1054
The dry cleaners lost his cape.
He did not have his superman powers
1055
Don;t let their fantasies mess with your realities.
Saying
1056
Good habits lead to great results.
1057
Exaggeration is my only reality.
Diana Vreeland's comment about maximalism
1058
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Suzy Kassem, American writer of Egyptian parentage whose insightful work often reflects themes of self-discovery and empowerment.
1059
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dalí
1060
Get orally explorative
gave head
1061
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward, motivational speaker of the mid-20th century, best known for his books of pithy sayings.
1062
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
1063
Overton Window
the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse.
the political “safe zone” in which they can debate and implement policy while simultaneously safely ensuring their reelection.
it reflects what society believes, which can be as easily influenced by truth and facts as it can be by inaccurate or deceptive information.
1064
Never argue with someone Harriet would have left behind.
Never argue with someone Harriet would have shot.
1065
His service can only be self service
Gold Star Father about Donald Trump
1066
I’m not your mommy and if what you need is a mommy, what you don’t need is power.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
1067
You can’t even invite a tiger into your house and expect it to be your pet.
Saying
1068
Everybody should do in their lifetime two things, one is to consider death.
Alan Watts
1069
He felt that there are many ways that one can do things, but one way that you can do it.
Billy Strayhorn about Duke ELlington
1070
Every man prays in his own language.
Duke Ellington
1071
Everyone should be able to do more than one thing.
Bernie Taupin attributed this quote to Duke Ellington.
1072
Out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
MLK
1073
“That’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”
Elon Musk
1074
It’s important to view knowledge as a sort of semantic tree. Make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e., the trunk and big branches before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
Elon Musk
1075
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
1076
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Duke Ellington
1077
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.
Duke Ellington
1078
Every artist should live a little above his means; he should be a little extravagant every day.
Duke Ellington
1079
I've found that the only way to be happy is to have as little as possible to do with other people.
Duke Ellington
1080
Critics can be very harsh, but I've never met one yet who could lick me.
Duke Ellington
1081
The most important thing I learned in school was that everything in life is negotiation.
Duke Ellington
1082
Art is dangerous. It is one of the few things that can change people's lives, and I take that responsibility very seriously.
Duke Ellington
1083
I am a believer in the power of music to heal, to inspire, and to bring people together.
Duke Ellington
1084
My greatest fear is not failure, but rather not trying at all.
Duke Ellington
1085
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Duke Ellington
1086
There is no such thing as a mistake in art, only opportunities for growth.
Duke Ellington
1087
I always tell young musicians, 'Remember, you are not playing for yourself, you are playing for the audience.'
Duke Ellington
1088
The key to success is to surround yourself with people who challenge you, inspire you, and believe in you.
Duke Ellington
1089
It's not enough to have talent; you must also have the discipline to work hard and persevere.
Duke Ellington
1090
Life is too short to waste time on things that don't matter.
Duke Ellington
1091
Music is my refuge and solace. It allows me to transcend the difficulties of life and find beauty in the world.
Duke Ellington
1092
In order to create something new and original, you must first understand and appreciate the past.
Duke Ellington
1093
The most important thing in life is to love what you do and do what you love.
Duke Ellington
1094
I believe in the power of imagination to transform ordinary experiences into extraordinary ones.
Duke Ellington
1095
Music is not just entertainment; it is a form of communication that can touch the deepest parts of our soul.
Duke Ellington
1096
You have to trust yourself, your own instincts, and your own vision.
Duke Ellington
1097
The only way to get better at something is to practice, practice, practice.
Duke Ellington
1098
Don't be afraid to take risks and try new things; that's where the magic happens.
Duke Ellington
1099
True mastery comes from a combination of talent, hard work, and a willingness to never stop learning.
Duke Ellington
1100
The biggest obstacle to success is often one's own self-doubt and fear of failure.
Duke Ellington
1101
Believe in yourself and your abilities, and others will believe in you too.
Duke Ellington
1102
Failure is not the end; it is simply a stepping stone on the path to success.
Duke Ellington
1103
Music has the power to transport us to another place and time, to evoke emotions we never knew we had.
Duke Ellington
1104
The true beauty of art lies in its ability to connect people from all walks of life and bridge cultural divides.
Duke Ellington
1105
Life is a never-ending journey of discovery, and art is the compass that guides us along the way.
Duke Ellington
1106
There are 2 rules in life:
Number 1- Never quit
Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
Duke Ellington
1107
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington
1108
It doesn't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing.
Duke Ellington
1109
Art hurts. Art urges voyages and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks
1110
I don’t need any policy staffers. All I need is all the communication staffers in the world.
Madison Cawthorn
1111
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
1112
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
1113
Women have the luxury to walk around like Halloween every single day.
Women have the luxury — emphasis on luxury — to reveal their authentic appearance or enhance their look.
1114
Always remember the three Fs: If a man is going to fuck and fight with you, at least he can do is feed you.
A random Baby Boomer grandmother
1115
Even if a man is the most handsome man on earth, with no surgeries or makeup, he may not get the woman he wants because his pockets aren’t fat.
Teri Nichols, Medium
1116
I can be someone's and still be my own.
Shel Silverstein
1117
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Suzy Kassem, American writer, poet, philosopher, and multi-faceted artist of Egyptian origin.
1118
easter egg
a hidden item placed in a movie, TV show or otherwise visual media for close watchers.
Slang term used for something extra hidden within a film for viewers to see if they can find it or not.
1119
There is no thing as justice this side of heaven.
1120
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone Weil
1121
With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.
Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller observed this in a 1989 paper.
1122
Quelle surprise!
What a surprise
1123
If you’re going to defeat someone you think is doing something terrible, and also keep a democracy, you have to build a majority.
Steve Inskeep
1124
in flagrante delicto
1. : in the very act of committing a misdeed : red-handed.
2. : in the midst of sexual activity.
1125
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
1126
The hopeless will hurt you.
President of Central Georgia Tech
1127
The hopeless will hurt you.
President of Central Georgia Tech
1128
Only what we do for others will last.
President of Central Georgia Tech
1129
If peace means a willingness to be exploited economically, dominated politically, humiliated, and segregated, I don’t want peace. If peace means being complacently adjusted to a deadening status quo, I don’t want peace. If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don’t want it. Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. warned in his 1956 speech, "When Peace Becomes Obnoxious"
1130
It may take two to tango, but you could be the only one at the punch bowl all night.
Medium blogger Teri Nickels discussing how the best laid co-parenting plans could end up in single parenthood.
1131
Streisand Effect
an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing awareness of that information.
1132
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
1133
People aren’t debating politics. They are debating history, land, and religion, culture and morals
1134
At the speed of war
As soon as possible
1135
It's better to be a coward for a minute, than dead for the rest of your life.
Game of Thrones Davos Seaworth's father
1136
The ultimate predator is the enemy you harbor in your own heart who hates you.
Dr. Jordan Peterson
1137
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
1138
One human universal is...
One thing that is always true is...
1139
jackboot
1. Cruelly and violently oppressive brutal ruffians or assassins, usually wearing jackboots.
2. Heavily armed DEA agents, usually dressed in full riot gear, who kick down innocent civilians' doors in search of harmless medicinal herbs.
1140
power law
a tiny minority of x gets all the y
1141
Power concedes noting without a demand.
Frederick Douglass
1142
Laugh now, because you are going to laugh later.
Ruby Dee
1143
Religion is a status-generating machine. The nation is a status-generating machine. Social media is certainly a status-generating machine.
Will Storr, in an interview discussing The Status Game.
1144
A well built physique is a status symbol. It reflects you worked hard for it, no money can buy it. You cannot borrow it, you cannot inherit it, you cannot steal it. You cannot hold onto it without constant work. It’s from dedication, discipline, self-respect, and dignity.
Ashley Horner, fitness trainer
1145
There’s a limit to how long you can think about one person, even if that person is you.
Fran Lebowitz
1146
If artificial intelligence takes over, it is the fault of natural intelligence.
Fran Lebowitz
1147
There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure, because deriving pleasure from something is reason enough to do it. -
Fran Lebowitz
1148
I have never been bored a minute in my life unless I was with other people.
Fran Lebowitz
1149
Talent is a pursued interest .….. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
Bob Ross
1150
After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.
Celeste Ng
1151
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice must pay to virtue.
Judy Davis as Hedda Hopper in Feud
1152
Never wound a snake; kill it.
Harriet Tubman
1153
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
Harriet Tubman
1154
"Devil" is a word we use for another peoples' God.
Joseph Campbell
1155
One of the prettiest sights in this pretty world is the privileged classes enjoying their privileges.
The Philadelphia Story
1156
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
1157
When a man marries his mistress, he leaves a job vacancy open.
An old divorce attorney joke
1158
Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.
Roy T. Bennett
1159
thin to win strategy
a common government strategy that says “If you’ve got out most of the evidence of the fraud and the exhibits you need, then there’s sort of only danger in adding more.”
you focus on the absolute strongest facts, throw out the marginal stuff, get it in and get it done.
1160
kitchen sink strategy
opposite of "thin to win" strategy
throwing everything you have at a jury and hoping the sum of it is compelling enough to win a conviction.
1161
Keep it simple, do one thing and do it the best you can.
Harry Snyder, founder of In and Out Burgers
1162
Don’t be ‘a writer’ but instead be writing.
William Faulkner
1163
1164
I contain multitudes
Bob Dylan
1165
Express your voice not in opposition, but in collaboration.
Brian Johnson, WABE
1166
He speaks in one register — that of outrage.
Jamie Raskin about Jim Jordan
1167
In this world a man must either be the anvil or a hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1168
If you only read the books everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami
1169
Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?
?
1170
Congress is a lot like high school, but even more so.
Saying
1171
Advisedly. I use that term advisedly
1172
We have not only the right, but the obligation to
1173
I have been bent and broken, but -I hope a into better shape.
Charles Dickens
1174
Talent is a pursued interest … Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
Bob Ross
1175
Kafka Trap
When you are accused of something, and your denial is taken as evidence that it is true.
A sophistical rhetorical device in which any denial by an accused person serves as evidence of guilt.
1176
Only those who truly care about you can hear you when you're quiet.
?
1177
I support women’s rights and women wrongs.
KPG
1178
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
James Baldwin
1179
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas Carlyle
1180
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
Bruce Lee
1181
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
Barbara Kingsolver
1182
The belly rules the mind.
Spanish proverb
1183
For every terrorist you kill, you create another ten terrorists.
Donald Rumsfeld
1184
Headlines tell the first story
1185
The liar’s dividend
A lie spreads faster than the truth that corrects it.
1186
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves
1187
If you get away from very very very, the adjectives he's familiar with are limited.
Bill Barr about Donald Trump.
1188
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
Martha Graham
1189
There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.
Wangari Maathai
1190
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Eckhart Tolle
1191
The Liking Gap
our tendency to underestimate how much other people like us.
1192
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
James Baldwin
1193
white certainty
The idea that if you came from a well-off white family and got an education, you had a reasonable expectation of success.
1194
Something dies inside a man... it just dies the first time he hears a girl call him old.
Being the Ricardos- JK Simmons playing William Frawley
1195
tant pis
too bad
1196
There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.
Bob Dylan
1197
It’s about emotional literacy and the fact that he doesn’t have to consider your feelings when he’s sharing his own. Like, he doesn’t have to worry that he might lose you.
Dr. Ken Ginsburg, founder of the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
1198
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
1199
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
Flannery O'Connor
1200
There will be no partners for peace if they're consumed by humanitarian catastrophe and alienated by any perceived indifference to their plight.
Antony Blinken about the Israel-Hamas War
1201
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Carl Sagan
1202
But we all, at times, have to contemplate, as Faulkner said, the sequence of natural events and their causes, which shadow every man’s brow.”
William Faulkner
1203
Aging is an inevitability, but weakness isn’t, not if you’re willing to keep lifting things above your shoulders. You know, we don’t have to lose our muscle.
Bonnie Stoll, Diana Nyad's closest friend and trainer
1204
Culture is software. Culture is an operating system. We know we have to continue to improve it because it’s always showing its bugs.
Sam Harris
1205
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
1206
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.
Joan Rivers
1207
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
1208
To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.
Dorothy West
1209
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell
1210
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
Joseph Goebbels
1211
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.
Helen Keller
1212
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
Frank Herbert
1213
You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them… But still move on without them.
Mandy Hale
1214
death by misadventure
the deceased is understood to have voluntarily undertaken some sort of risk that led to their untimely end—a fact that distinguishes this term from a ruling like “accidental death.”
1215
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas.
Anselm Kiefer, German painter and sculptor
1216
Gentlemen, I feel a great difficulty how to act. I am Vice-President. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything.
John Adams, describing his role as vice president.
1217
I’m not saying that I hate you. I’m just saying that if you got hit by a bus, I would be driving that bus.
Grumpy Cat
1218
Racism is more than hatred; it is an exploitation of disparate power between two racial groups.
Allison Wiltz, Medium
1219
The heart is not like a box that gets filled up;
it expands in size the more you love.
Spike Jonze
1220
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
1221
The older I get, the more I want to be authentically myself.
Julianne Moore
1222
I think I was called to run. I was not called to win, but I certainly was called to run.
Tim Scott, South Carolina senator
1223
Pay royalties to Mussolini family trust
News Opinion Show Anchor
1224
Democracy is the fullest expression of all of us.
Jon Meecham
1225
If you want to be deeply stressed, try wishing other people did things differently.
Alex Mathers, Medium
1226
We won't be distracted by comparison if we're
captivated with purpose.
Bob Goff
1227
“French people should accept the fact that a large amount of the money in their banks comes precisely from the exploitation of former colonies on the African continent.
Former President Jacques Chirac
1228
Time leaves traces on our small faces and bodies. It's not the same anymore, being able to pull it off.
Greta Garbo
1229
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Mignon McLaughlin
1230
If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you
love, you have to find the courage to live it.
John Irving
1231
Can’t turn a ho into a housewife. Hoes don't act right. There's hoes on a mission, and hoes on a crack-pipe.
Ludacris
1232
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
1233
The longer you hold on to things, the heavier they become. Learn to let go.
Vala Afshar, Ivan Misner, and others
1234
What doesn’t kill you can make you so damn weak you’ll wish you were dead.
KJG
1235
That's the response when you carry the dreams of people on your shoulders.
Sidney Poitier to Oprah when she was criticized.
1236
The longest suicide in history.
Montgomery Clift's last 10 years prior to his death from his 1956 car accident as described by famed acting teacher Robert Lewis.
1237
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
Sharon Salzberg
1238
Father Time is undefeated.
saying
1239
21st century technology with 4th century brains.
Jamie Raskin
1240
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.
Elbert Hubbard
1241
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Stephen King
1242
One day, if you have a little bit of talent and a lot of hard work, you're going to find out who you are.
Massimo Bottura, Italian restaurateur and the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant based in Modena, Italy.
1243
Man is indestructible because of his simple
will to freedom.
William Faulkner
1244
Never trust a skinny chef.
saying
1245
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo
1246
Just like push can turn to shove, like can turn to love.
Smokey Robinson
1247
Peace in the world is everybody's business, no
matter where you live or what you do.
Betty Williams
1248
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
Louise Erdrich
1249
There is so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
Marilynne Robinson
1250
Fall 2023 owes me nothing!
H. Eric Hilton
1251
Solitude isn’t loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly.
Victoria Erickson
1252
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
Havelock Ellis
1253
You can't always be in the reaping stage or the harvest stage of life. Life has seasons.
Emma Watson
1254
The ignorance forgiveness program has come to an end.
Lucky Nahum's Facebook posting
1255
Imagine what could be achieved if all the angry energy could be directed appropriately.
Saying
1256
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather
1257
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell
1258
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
Angela Davis
1259
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
1260
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
1261
When will poor white people realize that rich white people don’t consider you white?
A comedian
1262
widen the aperture
a poor metaphor for the concept of seeing/seeking a wider range of viewpoints (= perspectives).
your lens is more open, letting more light reach the sensor.
It doesn't result in a wider angle of view, but it does result in collecting light from the scene from wider range of angles.
Widening the Aperture: The Need for Divergent Thinking
1263
There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood.
Brad Meltzer, American novelist, non-fiction writer, TV show creator, and comic book author.
1264
He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Viktor Frankl attributed this saying to Nietzche.
1265
I wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone. Even if they don't deserve forgiveness.
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1266
How many scars have we justified because we love the person holding the knife?
tumblr
1267
Healing begins where the wound was made.
Alice Walker
1268
A man settles where he finds peace, not beauty, not money, not status, but peace.
Mejja, a Kenyan Genge artist.
1269
Sunday carbs don't count. Those are the Lord's carbs and he wants you to be happy.
tumblr
1270
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
Hafiz, a Persian poet
1271
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not
absolute.
Dalai Lama
1272
Clothes and manners
do not make the man;
but when he is made.
they greatly improve his
appearance.
- Arthur Ashe
Clothes and manners
do not make the man;
but when he is made.
they greatly improve his
appearance.
- Arthur Ashe
1273
Your attitude, physical appearance,
actions and works are your brand in the
real world an online. Everything you do
effects your brand either positively or
negatively. Brand yourself accordingly
Oshun the Poet
Your attitude, physical appearance,
actions and works are your brand in the
real world an online. Everything you do
effects your brand either positively or
negatively. Brand yourself accordingly
Oshun the Poet
1274
More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you.
Annie Lennox
1275
Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.
Robert Denning
1276
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger
1277
Policy is the art of weighing probabilities; mastery of it lies in grasping the nuances of possibilities. To attempt to conduct it as a science must lead to rigidity. For only the risks are certain; the opportunities are conjectural.
Henry Kissinger
1278
Never be so focused on what you're looking for
that you overlook the thing you actually find.
Ann Patchett
1279
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Lots of people
1280
One of the things Jesus taught was: If you have any talents, try to utilize them for the benefit of others.
Jimmy Carter
1281
Premature gray hair can be hereditary. You get it from your children.
Grace Kelly
1282
fundamental attribution error
The psychological phenomenon whose basic belief is that whatever problems befall us personally are the result of difficult circumstances, while the same problems in other people are the result of their bad choices.
1283
Chekhov's gun
a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.
1284
Golden Spending Rule
If you can't afford two of it, you can't afford it.
1285
A gentleman is not defined by the content of his wallet or the cut of his suit. He is defined by his manners and the content of his character.
Saying
1286
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
Robin Williams
1287
The freedom from social and political systems of oppression that designate certain bodies as more worthy, healthy, and desirable than others.
The University of Vermont's definition of body liberation
1288
Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
1289
There will always be someone who can't see
your worth. Don't let it be you.
Mel Robbins
1290
I can assure you that I am spiritually, emotionally, ethically and morally behind whoever wins.
Stewy Hosseini from Succession
1291
A single girl who needs nobody makes people
uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this,
appearance is everything, and appearing to
have no one is like swimming alone in the
middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.
Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer from an aristocratic background.
1292
It will get worse before it gets much worse.
Saying
1293
Never try to be someone’s why. They have to find it within themselves.
Carlyn Beccia, Medium
1294
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jay Gould
1295
Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.
Carl Sagan
1296
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
1297
The best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
Booker T. Washington
1298
There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day.
Bob Kagan, Washington Post editor at large
1299
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be
understood.
Marie Curie
1300
When heroism shows up and knocks on your door, it’s usually easier to pretend you’re asleep.
Rachel Maddow
1301
Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
C.S. Lewis
1302
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.
E. Digby Baltzell
1303
The antisemitic defining antisemitism to semites defines ignorance more than it does antisemitism.
Facebook saying
1304
I’ve been raised up and down the flagpole of public opinion so many times.
Taylor Swift
1305
I’ve been given a tiara, then had it taken away.
Taylor Swift
1306
Your passions should fit you exactly but your purpose in life should exceed you.
Kevin Kelly
1307
Comedy only works when everybody agrees on the premise:
1308
Be careful who you make memories with. Those can last a lifetime.
RG
1309
Captain Obvious
Someone who makes superfluous or obvious statements. ▼
1310
jump ball
Metaphor for a contest too close to call.
1311
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Josh Billings, pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw.
1312
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
Conan O'Brien
1313
The ghosts you chase you never catch.
John Malkovich
1314
It’s not show friends — it’s show business.
David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery quoting Jerry Maguire’s cutthroat protégé from the hit 1996 film about firing his close friends at CNN.
1315
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are
looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
1316
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank
1317
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
Gail Sheehy
1318
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
Johnetta Cole
1319
When you are unappreciated for your good acts, you stop acting good.
Rochelle Cummings
1320
The time to make up your mind about people, is never.
Philip Barry
1321
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho
1322
I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.
Sage Francis, American rapper
1323
thin gruel
thin food made by boiling cereal (as oatmeal or cornmeal) in water or milk.
a poor substitute for the flesh and blood of the real thing.
1324
If you ignore your feelings they will get your attention in other ways.
Kathy Kalina, American author who writes about spiritual care
1325
We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting.
Neil Gaiman
1326
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
Deepak Chopra
1327
The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.
Becca Fitzpatrick
1328
I care completely whether they like me or not.
Dominick Dunne
1329
The actual back end of success or failure ends up revealing itself to be not nearly as meaningful as you think on the front end.
Alden Ehrenreich
1330
Maybe my films would’ve been better, but they wouldn’t have been mine.
Orson Welles
1331
There’s a practical arithmetic as an actor now that, frankly, I just don’t have the stomach for in the long run
Alden Ehrenreich
1332
A director presides over a film set.
Francis Ford Coppola
1333
I’ve only made one mistake my whole life, but I’ve made it over and over and over again—and that’s saying yes when I should have said no.
Alden Ehrenreich
1334
I would never speak to a child the way I speak to myself.
Sierra DeMulder
1335
Fame is the excrement of creativity, it's the shit that comes out the back end, it's a by-product of it.
Bruce Dickinson from the English band Iron Maiden
1336
The places that were meant to keep me safe caused me more damage than protection.
tumblr
1337
I hope one day we can forgive each other for not being what we wanted each other to be.
Kriti G., tumblr
1338
Sex and art are the same thing.
Pablo Picasso
1339
You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.
Joyce Meyer
1340
In the middle of the night when you need God most may the sky unfold and pull you closer.
Rashida James-Saadiya /Shukr bil-Lisan/ (Thankfulness of the tongue)
1341
When people can't control you, they try to control how others view you.
Samuel L Jackson, tumblr
1342
If they''re teaming up to go against you, you gotta understand how powerful you are by yourself.
Facebook
1343
You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1344
Every time you go under the knife for vanity, you are slicing off yet more of your self-worth.
Sharon Osbourne
1345
It's terrifying that we are growing up with this very illiterate bunch of children, who are somehow being taught that film is fact, when in fact it's invention.
Cate Blanchett about criticism that Elizabeth: the Golden Age took dramatic liberties with historical facts.
1346
Women have some desires that only trust can reveal.
Jeff Hood, American activist and theologian
1347
I have no difficulty holding both logic and feeling at the same time and that does not diminish my powers; it expands them!
Barbie, the Movie
1348
When you burn books, you’re not a long way from burning men.
Ava Duvernay
1349
The year with no summer
The year without a summer
1816
1350
Those of us who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are cultivated. For these there is hope.
Oscar Wilde
1351
Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it, but a kiss can be deadlier if you mean it.
Michelle Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in "Batman Returns".
1352
non sibi
Not for self (motto of Phillips Andover School
1353
You always want to think that your personal power is bigger than the oppression you’re walking into.
Denée Benton
1354
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Cher
1355
There is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed.
Kahlil Gibran
1356
It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1357
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
1358
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper
1359
The alternative to peace is the hell we see now.
Mira Awad, Arab singer
1360
casus foederis
a Latin expression meaning the justification for acts of war. Casus means "incident", "rupture" or indeed "case", while belli means bellic ("of war"). It is usually distinguished from casus foederis, where casus belli refers to offenses or threats directly against a nation, and casus foederis refers to offenses or threats to a fellow allied nation with which the justifying nation is engaged in a mutual defense treaty, such as NATO.
1361
Pretend you're more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.
Buddy Wakefield, American spoken-word artist and poet
1362
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott
1363
When you get a choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
Lee Ann Womack, I Hope You Dance
1364
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach, American author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1365
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
Letter from George Washington to Bushrod Washington , Wednesday, January 15, 1783
1366
Each show has a job to do, given the price tag that we give to it, and there’s a viewership. component, and there’s a critical response element to it and, of course, the buzz nature of a show. It’s those elements that we are always keeping in mind and discussing relative to whether or not a show will continue.
Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO Programming, Head of HBO Drama Series and Films
1367
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other.
Judy Garland
1368
Happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Nikos Kazantzakis
1369
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
Hamilton Wright Mabie
1370
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of
control.
Jack Kornfield, spiritual teacher who helped introduce Buddhist practices into Western mainstream culture in the 1970s.
1371
Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1372
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
C. Richard Paul Evans
1373
fluid-bonded with your partner
meaning you've chosen to stop using barrier methods
1374
If there is a substitute for love, it is memory.
Joseph Brodsky
1375
Every time someone steps up and says who they are, the world becomes a better, more interesting place.
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn 999
1376
1377
Abilene Paradox
A collective fallacy, in which a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is counter to the preferences of most or all individuals in the group, while each individual believes it to be aligned with the preferences of most of the others.
When organizations frequently take actions in contradiction to what they really want to do and therefore defeat the very purposes they are trying to achieve.
1378
You will never get any more out of life than you expect.
Bruce Lee
1379
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of
the night.
Sarah Williams, often overlooked English poet of the mid-19th century, best known for her poem “The Old Astronomer”
1380
History is our identity
Ty Seidule
Hamilton College
1381
The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.
Wendy Wunder
1382
There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness.
Edgar Allan Poe
1383
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Kurt Vonnegut
1384
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
Joan Didion
1385
I don’t drink anymore… I don’t drink any less, but I don’t drink any more!
Dean Martin
1386
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been.
Rainer Maria Rilke
1386
Goals without plans are just wishes.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French literary giant
1387
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland
1388
Life is too short, and you have to take things with a grain of salt and a grain of sugar and keep on going.
Margarita Velasco, Cuban American cook
1389
If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.
Damian Lillard, American professional basketball player
1390
If you expect nothing from somebody, you are never disappointed.
Sylvia Plath
1391
Love those who love you when you have nothing to offer but your company.
tumblr
1392
Yes it is possible to hate and love someone at the same time. I do it to myself every day.
tumblr
1393
Who you were, who you are, and who you will be are three different people.
Unknown
1394
I have nothing special to offer but my capacity to love you.
a.r.asher, Instagram poet
1395
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller
1396
As short-term politics, that’s a pretty smart calculation—but Faust made a pretty good deal in the short term too.
David Graham, The Atlantic
1397
The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times.
Long time disability advocates
1398
May flowers grow in the saddest parts of you.
Zainab Aamir
1399
Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.
Todd Henry
1400
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar Wilde ( at Customs in NYC)
1401
Irony is when we do not say what mean or do not mean what we say. Or we mean what don’t say.
Benjamin McEvoy
1402
Characters I neither liked nor found joy in rooting against.
Kevin Carr, Fat Guys at the Movies film critic
1403
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep
1404
I have selective hearing. I'm sorry you weren't selected today.
T-shirt
1405
You can’t bring a PowerPoint to a culture war.
CNN guest
1406
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach
1406
Enjoy yourself, at no-one else's expense.
Supermodel Carmen Dell'Orefice's daily motto
1407
Autism is not a disability, IIt’ is a different ability.
Stuart Duncan
1408
I think we all deserve to be remembered for how we lived, and how we died is simply part of a bigger story.
Ashley Judd
1409
I think we all deserve to be remembered for how we lived, and how we died is simply part of a bigger story.
Ashley Judd
1410
Going for the capillary, not the jugular.
David Axelrod
1411
If one party is shameless, then the other party better not be spineless.
Senator Frank Lautenberg
1412
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
Robin Williams
1413
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson
1414
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
If a rival or enemy shows one generosity or kindness, one should be suspicious of their motives.
1415
Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about.
Winston Churchill
1416
Admire as much as you can, most people don't
admire enough.
Vincent Van Gogh
1417
The brain is not a reality machine. It is a virtual reality machine.
Will Storr
1418
The brain is not a reality machine. It is a virtual reality machine.
Will Storr
1419
You’re not entitled to your opinion. You’re only entitled to your informed opinion.
Paul Guyot
1420
A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they’re entitled to know everything I do.
Lisa Kleypas
1421
Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.
Jack Kornfield
1422
I change myself, I change the world.
Gloria Anzaldúa
1423
Old keys don't unlock new doors.
Saying
1424
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is
one of them.
Vicki Baum
1425
Perhaps the first rule of everything we endeavor to do is to pay attention. Perhaps the second is to be patient. And perhaps a third is to be attentive to what the body knows.
Barry Lopez
1426
Life is change that yearns for stability.
Professor Roy Baumeister
1427
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
1428
My entire upbringing [was about learning] to fuel people. . . . I was always taught to be a fountain, not a drain, [to] provide something instead of [taking].
Travis Kelce
1429
Everything within your grasp is not meant to be in your hands.
Terry Crews, actor
1430
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
C.S. Lewis
1431
A man who acknowledges your pain but doesn’t care to reduce this pain or make it go away is no different than a fuck boy who creates pain!
Sanni Lark, Medium
1432
Notice what you notice.
Allen Ginsberg
1433
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain
permanently confused. Anything is possible.
George Saunders
1434
White southerners created the Confederacy to preserve racialized human bondage and the wealth it generated.
Robert E. May, professor emeritus of history at Purdue University
1435
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
1436
Don't give oxygen to the crazy.
Old political adage
1437
I am all the things I
have ever loved.
Toni Morrison
I am all the things I
have ever loved.
Toni Morrison
1438
Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart.
Brené Brown
1439
Playing the race card is usually a proxy for “You’re making me uncomfortable, so please stop talking." Or a diversionary tactic used to avoid having to speak about race with any kind of precision or specificity. A shorthand for “Just shut up.”
Michele Norris
1440
The world can provide for human need, not human greed.
Mohandas K Gandhi
1441
It is not worthy of a human being to give up.
Alva Myrdal
1442
When someone has never had to face accountability for their actions, responsibility feels like an injustice.
Old saying
1443
If I had to heal from you, I'm not letting you back in my space.
Saying
1444
No matter how strong you are, there was a relationship that almost took you to mental hospital.
Saying
1445
Create doubt and then shout it out.
Russell Brown describing Donald Trump's strategy.
1446
Time is how you spend your love.
Nick Laird
1447
Why should your life only be about you?
Ann Richards
1448
Every time a man changes position when a woman is about to orgasm, an angel loses its wings.
Carlyn Beccia
1449
For the love of clenched sphincters, please don’t ram anything in her butt hole without foreplay.
Carlyn Beccia
1450
The meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness.
Terry Pratchett
1451
Ph.D women being controlled by G.E.D men.
Pastor RC Blakes Jr
1452
One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.
Abraham Verghese
1453
You can’t walk away from the fight you’re in.
General Barry McCaffrey
1454
(stand) ten toes down
a euphemism/expression. meaning: being committed to something, or to devote. 100% of your support towards a thing
1455
If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Sue Monk Kidd
1456
Calm is a super power. Don't let stress steal your happiness.
Anonymous
1457
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker, Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author
1458
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
1459
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts
1460
Fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru
1461
Whatever you are, try to be a good one.
William Makepeace Thackeray
1462
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
1463
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith
1464
Out of the wreck I rise.
Robert Browning
1465
It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.
Gabrielle Zevin
1466
My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
Judy Blume
1467
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
1468
The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.
David Brooks
1469
It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come.
Malcolm X
1470
I generally find that goals are things that we want to do, or things we want, as opposed to who we need to be in order to achieve those goals. So if goals are what we want, growth is who we need to be to get to that goal.
Jay Shetty
1471
What can you do to be a bridge, not a gap?
Madison Morrigan
1472
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
William Hazlitt
1473
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker
1474
He was a good egg from West Egg until somebody shot him.
Babette Van Degan
1475
The Lord will set you down.
Killer Mike's grandmother
1476
Much hurt and many problems result when we stop looking at one another.
Amoris Laetitia, 128
1477
Knowledge is not power. The ability to act on knowledge and to influence people and work with them effectively is power.
1478
Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert.
Dodin in Trần Anh Hùng's “The Taste of Things
1479
I converse with you in the dining room through what you eat.
Eugénie in Trần Anh Hùng's “The Taste of Things
1480
'Tis never too late to be wise.
Daniel Defoe
1481
Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.
River Phoenix
1482
Whenever an apology is coerced, there’s a good chance the apologist is more sorry for getting caught than the actual crime.
Carlyn Beccia
1483
“Envy is when we want something that someone else has. Jealousy is when we are afraid of losing what we already have to someone else.”
Brené Brown
1484
Kirk would be the first to tell you that he is a very difficult man. And I would be the second.
Burt Lancaster about Kirk Douglas
1485
I resolved to abandon all thoughts of a prosperous and worthy future and devote myself to birds, the subject I was overpoweringly interested in.
Sidney Dillon Ripley, III
1486
Leave a kind trail behind yourself for your progeny.
Diane Lane about Slim Keith's autobiographical omissions
1487
Success isn't about how your life looks to others; it's about how it feels to you.
Michelle Obama
1488
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to murder.
Alexander Solse
1489
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
1490
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its
strength.
George Seaton Bowes
1491
Women want what they want and they also want what other women want.
Orion Taraban, Psy.D.
Soft White Underbelly
1492
We covet what we see every day.
Hannibal Lechter
1493
Men want the Barbie doll.
Women what all the stuff Ken comes with (lifestyle/resources).
Oiron Taraban, Psy.D.
1494
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then
just get a little more.
Maya Angelou
1495
Music and poetry are like two sides of the same coin. "Poetry, there's this in between the words, and with music, it's the same — in between the notes, actually, the real message happens,"
Jan Vogler, famed cellist
1496
A glass of brandy resting on a table in front of firelight.
Truman Capote's description of Lee Radziwill's eyes
1497
The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.
Kevin Kelly
1498
You have more bends in your river.
There is still something left in you.
1499
A criticism only hurts if you believe it.
Feud
1500
The difficult is what takes a little time: the impossible is what takes a little longer.
Fridtjof Nansen
1501
I know I have the body but of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.
Queen Elizabeth I
1502
I hold the sun to be situated motionless in the center of the revolution of the celestial orbs while the earth rotates on its axis and revolves about the sun.
Galileo Galilei
1503
Women use sex to get resources. Men use resources to get sex.
Orion Taraban, Psy.D.
1504
The key to dating is to have high hopes and low expectations.
Orion Taraban, Psy.D.
1505
Never expect past the present moment.
Orion Taraban, Psy.D.
1506
We repeat until we remember.
Sigmund Freud
1507
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Steven Covey
1508
So much of our reality is constructed through the act of naming.
Latino USA (Maria Hinohosa’s show)
1509
Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
Marianne WIlliamson
1510
Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez
1511
The Looking-glass Self” Theory
The idea is that our self-perception is shaped by how we believe others perceive us.
1512
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, absolute powerlessness does the same. It's not poverty but the inequality we live that turn us insane
Akala on X
1513
We’re not descended from angels. We’re descended from primates.
Robert Greene
1514
Nobody ever do something only once.
Nobody ever does something just once.
Robert Greene
1515
She is our dog , but we are her humans.
Guest on Michael Smerconish’s show about a dog’s (pitbull, German shepherd) aggression.
1516
In concept, if not in manifest.
Jason Ghezzi
1517
The source of your power is your attitude towards the world.
Robert Greene
1518
Comparing yourself is not self reflective. The standard is always someone else.
Robert Greene
1519
I’ve survived too many friendships with women who had secret animosity towards me when all i wanted was sisterhood.
Chelsea Krystina, Aunt Eleanor's granddaughter
1520
I have many faults. Misunderstanding politics is not one of them.
Mitch McConnell
1521
Beware; for I am fearless, and
therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
1522
It is the artist's business to create
sunshine when the sun fails.
Romain Rolland
1523
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1524
Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
Jodi Picoult
1525
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
William Somerset Maugham
1526
So ordinary that it was breathtaking.
Carol Marcus about John O'Shea
1527
I often think that truth is a guess. Not, of course, when it comes to empirical things like this earth not being flat. But I think you can take a lot from the footage of what was happening, of all those people, and build a picture that occasionally goes under the skin of the event and contains sort of imagined reportage. That’s how you navigate it.
Screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz
1528
Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.
Nobel Prize winning physicist WIlliam Schockley
1529
defaulted of character
Mitt Romney’s description of Donald Trump
1530
Everything is all right with the world when you've been out on the town and you could have a hot bird and a cold bottle
Lucius Beebe
1531
vaccinated with a passport
James Villas about a child who travelled a lot at an early age.
1532
I have a fatal attraction for the slim chance.
Jeremiah Tower
1533
Perfect ingredients, simply done, good music, and a banana tree.
Jeremiah Tower
1534
Work while you still have the light.
Marel Proust while lying in bed writing.
1535
I’m not hungry for that.
I don't want that.
1536
Orson Welles Syndrome
When you've made Citizen Kane, you don't have to apologize for anything or achieve anything else in your life.
1537
I say you need two ingredients to open a farm: optimism and ignorance. Optimism is like: Oh, it’s a piece of a dream, wouldn’t it be great to have it? Sure, I can do a farm! And ignorance is how hard it is — how hard it is workwise, but also to make it financially viable.
Isabella Rossellini
1538
A really hot woman will activate a man's short term mating strategies and activate other women's competitive strategies
Pamela Anderson strategy
1539
She (Alice Waters) gets the lion’s share of credit for building a movement not because every last idea was her own but because she stuck around and saw it through. Fathering can happen all of a sudden; mothering is slower, longer labor.
Article in The New Yorker about Jeremiah Tower reviewing the documentary about his life, "The Last Magnificent"
1540
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into
the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1541
We are all allotted an unknown, but finite number of hours of consciousness. Maybe a critic can help you spend them more meaningfully.
Roger Ebert
1542
There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
1543
In the depths of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an
invincible summer.
Albert Camus
1544
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
1545
History had me glued to the seat. It felt as if Harriet Tubman’s hand was pushing me down on the one shoulder, and Sojourner Truth’s hand was pushing me down on the other. Learning about those two women gave me the courage to remain seated that day.
Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her Montgomery Alabama bus seat to a white passenger nine months before Rosa Parks.
1546
Happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Nikos Kazantzakis
1547
At some point, you have t elevate it to the global.
Mom
1548
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
1549
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own
canoe, you don't move.
Katharine Hepburn
1550
Unfortunately, we’re reaping the results of a generation raised to believe that their feelings are equal to—or even outweigh—objective facts.
BGH-Atlanta on Twitter (X)
1551
Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Henry Miller
1552
Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.
Robert Kiyosaki
1553
Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.
Marcel Proust
1554
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
1555
Our heads are round so thought can change direction.
Francis Picabia
1556
You know a poem is good when it takes the top of your head off.
Emily Dickinson
1557
If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Emily Dickinson in an 1870 letter
1558
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man.
This is a paraphrase of a quote, perhaps apocryphal, often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
1559
Ass, gas or grass. No one rides for free.
Saying
1560
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
Miles Davis
1561
People that like us will not smoke in the house. People that will smoke in the house we do not like.
A little sign on the coffee table in the living room of the Colonel’s house.
1562
indelible in the hippocampus
Memory is what most women retain of their rapes, assaults, and harassments. These recollections form the cornerstone of a legal proceeding that they must plead and contest in their imaginations in place of an official prosecution.
Christine Blasey Ford testifying about how the memory of Brett Kavanaugh raping her is burned into her brain.
1563
I would remind people that if you’re anti-immigration, you’re anti-American. It’s just racism by another name.
Alan Cumming
1564
All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.
Eleanor Farjeon
1565
Get it up, get it on, get it off.
The woodsman’s mantra
1566
Even the fabulously rich are naked under their clothes.
Truman Capote
1567
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
1568
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
Henry David Thoreau
1569
What woman is ever 50 years old?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
1570
Maybe happiness isn't what you believe, but who you believe.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
1571
The chief danger in life is that you
may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
1572
He was not a woman lover, he was a womanizer.
One of William Paley's friends describing him.
1573
When we sow a seed, we plant a narrative of future possibility.
Sue Stuart-Smith
1574
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.”
Carl Jung
1575
Airplane Theory
In flight school, if you say, “Don’t land to the left,” the pilot will always go slightly left. If you say, “Land to the right,” the pilot will more consistently land to the right. It’s about focusing on what you want. Focus on what matters and where you want to go.
1576
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Theodore Roethke
1577
Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever; you just have to live.
Natalie Babbitt
1578
Never be defined by your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Unknown
1579
Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.
Robert Greene
1580
Life is a keyboard. You have to stroke the right keys to get ahead.
Unknown
1581
When your close loved one is at the center of a political scandal, it’s in your obit too.
Sally Quinn
1582
Feelings are indicators, they’re not facts.
RuPaul
1583
You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.
Writer Sheila Heti
1584
Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good.
Ibn al-Arabi
1585
If you knew how quickly people forget the dead, you would stop living to impress people.
Christopher Walken
1586
Moonshot goal
Only 1 in a million can do it
1587
Devil’s Bargain
A deal in which one gains something desirable in exchange for a destructive, debilitating, or immoral consequence.
1588
Sudden death is hard in the living, but slow death is hard on the person.
Judy Foster Davis
1589
If God made it, eat it; if man made it, leave it.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
1590
The beginning of wisdom is to do away with fear.
Yohannes Gebregeorgis
1591
Stay close to any sounds that make you glad you are alive.
Hafez
1592
bien sûr
of course
1593
The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
Anonymous
1594
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only
be human together.
Desmond Tutu
1595
There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.
Amanda Gorman
1596
Youth can walk faster, but elders know the way.
Saying
1597
It's only possible to live happily ever after on a
day-to-day basis.
Margaret Bonnano
1598
Only the curious have something to find.
Sean Watkins
1599
Distractions come dressed up as opportunities
saying
1600
Begin to see yourself as.. SOUL WITH A BODY ..rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer
1601
I wasn’t a good parent to myself.
Robert Greene (talking negatively to himself)
1602
I wasn’t a good parent to myself.
Robert Greene (talking negatively to himself)
1603
To not be strategic is to be stupid.
Robert Greene
1604
I don’t do drugs, I am drugs.
Salvador Dalí
1605
Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems.
Donald Kingsbury
1606
We fought like warrior poets
US House Speaker Mike Johnson
1607
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
1608
Not only do I not like you, I don’t like you personally!
Carrie Fisher to Paul Simon on their honeymoon
1609
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
1610
A friend who becomes an enemy after a little misunderstanding has been an enemy all along. They were just pretending.
Saying
1611
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick
1612
You are what you love, not what loves you.
Charlie Kaufman
1613
Chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
1614
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
1615
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper
1616
faute de mieux
/ˌfōt də ˈmyə/
adverb
for want of a better alternative.
1617
volley of oaths
string of curses
1618
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
Only the ephemeral
is of lasting value.
Eugène lonesco
1619
To get rich, do work where you get paid in proportion to the number of customers you satisfy instead of the number of hours you work. Not all work of this kind will make you rich, but nearly all work that can make you rich is of this kind.
Paul Graham, Twitter
@paulg
1620
I loved Michael very much when I married him. And I don't think love ever really disappears. It might metamorphose, [but] I certainly don't think that hate is the right recipe.
Diandra Luker
1621
You're only as young as the last time you changed
your mind.
Timothy Leary
1622
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
1623
If your path demands that you walk through hell, walk as if you own the place.
Unknown
1623
And sometimes against all odds, against all logic... we still hope.
Unknown
1623
Agnostic is the only respectable position, simply because our ignorance of the universe is so vast that atheism is premature.
Martin Amis
1624
Art is made in hindsight.
Virgil Abloh
1625
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
1625
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
1625
Companies strive to have more than just customers and employees — they aim to provide experiences that create raving fans. The key is love, says global researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham.
“We tie that word love to the extreme positives, and it’s a different category of thing,” he says.
Buckingham explains, “You’ve got fives and not five. It’s like boiling water. The boiling point of water is 212 [degrees] Fahrenheit. You’ve got to get it above 212 Fahrenheit. You’ve got boiling and then you’ve got everything else. It’s the same with love.”
That’s not to say that “everything else” is bad, but you can’t predict anything from it, Buckingham says. If you want to predict whether people will buy from you, maintain higher margins with you, or advocate to their family and friends to shop with you or get service from you, you’ve got to get to fives, he says. Achieving that five is a much higher standard, but it’s essential because it’s only when someone says, “I loved it” that you can predict what they will do.
Marcus Buckingham
1626
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
Ai Weiwei
1627
There are very few people in my life that I have carried a dagger for…she is one of them. For 20 years.
Kathryn Greer about Faye Resnick (OJ Simpson trial)
1628
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Teresa of Ávila
1629
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and
what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
1630
A regulator’s role is to protect the many from the few.
Howard Brown, Kim’s father
1631
Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
Terry Pratchett
1632
The two things that you have to sell a rom-com are fun and chemistry.
Sydney Sweeney, actress and star of rom-com "Anybody but You."
1633
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir
1634
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
Alexander Graham Bell
1635
What is that you so beautifully do?”
Henry James is said to have once asked someone, somewhere or other.
1636
Start ... where you are.
Use ... what you have.
Do ... what you can.
1637
Life is about a neurochemical state and I’m doing everything I can to be fulfilled.
Tom Bilyeu
1638
Life is about a neurochemical state and I’m doing everything I can to be fulfilled.
Tom Bilyeu
1639
The human mind always makes progress, but it is progress in spirals.
Madame de Staël
1640
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it's good to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
1641
The lack of democracy in the hope is probably the biggest source of the lack of democracy outside of it.
Gloria Steinem, when asked by Mike Wallace about why an African-American reached the White House before a woman.
1642
Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good!
Terry Pratchett
1643
Michael Cohen has fully embraced a role that is common and popular in American life — the role of the repentant sinner. And he embraces his penance with the same degree of passion and fervor with which he embraced his sins. It’s rather remarkable.”
Ronald Kuby, a longtime criminal defense lawyer in New York.
1644
Men are not judged by their relationships to women.
culture critic Jamilah Lemieux
1645
Don’t know where I’m goin’, but there’s no use bein’ late.
And the line from his 1990 western “Quigley Down Under” that he wanted as the memoir’s title: “Don’t know where I’m goin’, but there’s no use bein’ late.”
1646
I don't negotiate with people who scream the loudest.
Ben Sasse
1647
I have taken a pledge of political celibacy.
Ben Sasse
1648
The avant-garde spirit is not just a youthful sentiment— I live my life by it.
Yohji Yamamoto
1649
If it ain't about the books, I could give a fuck about the looks. And the looks come with love. And love comes with hate, harm, deceit, jealousy, etc.
Prostitute Interview- Ronnie, Soft White Underbelly
1650
The soft bigotry of low expectations
George W. Bush
1651
The best thing one can do when it is raining is to
let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1652
When you get to different levels, there are new devils.
Prostitute Interview- Martina, Soft White Underbelly
1653
Accept the love. Ignore the hate.
Prostitute Interview- Martina said Bishop Don Juan told her this, Soft White Underbelly
1654
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
1655
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
1656
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
Anaïs Nin
1657
When the whole world is silent, even one voice
becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
1658
Justice delayed is justice denied.
1659
If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get
a better mirror.
Shane Koyczan
1660
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is
strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
1661
Let us not go back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
1662
I am out with lanterns looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson
1663
What do you do when there's nowhere to turn? You drive straight ahead.
Leslie Gordon
1664
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Gloria Steinem
1665
While you are riding the wave you just put your best self out there and enjoy it.
Freida Pinto
1666
It’s the cat that decides what milk is good.
Orión Taraban
1667
Mankind was not made to suffer. Bliss is
our nature.
David Lynch
1668
He made sure that we can rest in the shade of the trees he planted, and may he have rest eternal when it is his time.
Twitter user @JoeNewberry about President Jimmy Carter
1669
Just keeping it a buck
Let’s keep it a buck.
African-American Vernacular, meaning to be real, honest, truthful, brutally or totally honest.
1670
Trust me when I say that, "even my good days are harder than you can imagine."
Narin Grewal
1671
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for
it is.
Nadine Gordimer
1672
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
1673
The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
1674
Enemies are so stimulating.
Katharine Hepburn
1675
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
1676
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll
1677
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand
the meaning of life.
Rabindranath Tagore
1678
“Put some positive music in your chain of thoughts. Think, “gratitude.” You can’t stop thinking, so think good thoughts.”
Diana Ross
1679
Hell is other people.
Sartre
1680
"The ugly may be beautiful, the pretty never."
Paul Gauguin
1681
No gesture of love is wasted.
Anonymous
1682
The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Paulo Coelho
1683
Nice is different than good.
Stephen Sondheim
1684
Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
Stephen King
1685
We’re all just walking each other home.
Ram Dass
1686
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
Ram Dass
1687
There are just as good fish in the sea than as ever came out of it
Brief Encounter (1946)
1688
Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.
Amit Ray
1689
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s Awareness!
Ram Dass
1690
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
Ram Dass
1691
“Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
Ram Dass
1692
Be here, now!
Ram Dass
1693
Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.
Ram Dass
1694
I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.
Ram Dass
1695
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
Ram Dass
1696
Empty barrels make the most noise.
Tall hat, no cattle.
Those who proclaim or scream something the most are the least authentic.
1697
Money talks, but wealth whispers.
Old saying
1698
My beliefs don't require that you believe them.
James Sexton, divorce attorney
1699
You're going to have to sit down for 90 minutes per week and you're going to have to listen to her. She will tell you everything that is wrong. If you don't listen to her for 90 minutes per week, you'll be listening to her in divorce court.
Jordan Peterson
1700
Set your own agenda, or someone else will set it for you.
Saying
1701
Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.
The phrase was adopted from a toast written by General John Stark, New Hampshire's most famous soldier of the American Revolutionary War, on July 31, 1809.
1702
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles, The Big Brass Ring
1703
Tradition is peer pressure exerted by dead people.
James Sexton, Divorce attorney
1704
The reason why I never wanted to be famous is because the praise of strangers never really appealed to me.
James Sexton, Divorce attorney
1705
What is the problem for which marriage is a solution? Do I have that problem? And will marriage solve that problem?
James Sexton, Divorce attorney
1706
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.
John Adams
1707
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Benjamin Franklin
1708
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
1709
Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
1710
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Ernest Hemingway
1711
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not
absence of fear.
Mark Twain
1712
In every conversation respect is like air. When it's present nobody notices. When it's absent it's all anybody can think about.
David Brooks
1713
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
1714
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.
Joan Rivers
1715
Chance would be a fine thing.
Said when you would very much like something to happen but there is no possibility that it will.
1716
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
Anaïs Nin
1717
I will be a father forever to my children, and I am powerless to end that mission and that purpose. My only choice is between doing it well and doing it poorly.
First Things - Twitter
1718
Everyone should have a superiority complex.
Diana Nyad
1719
Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.
John Maxwell
1720
I give God 10 percent. Why do you get 18?
The pastor of a small church who had dined at a chain restaurant and balked at paying the automatic 18 percent gratuity.
1721
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Origin apocryphal
1722
Dare to be naïve.
Buckminster Fuller
1723
Reality is everything, and dreaming is the same.
Iris van Herpen
1724
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
1725
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1726
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anybody else to feel like that.
Robin Williams
1727
You’re alive as long as you’re alive.
Jill Ciment, author and widow of Arnold Mesches
1728
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
Anonymous, although frequently attributed to Churchill.
1729
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
T.H. Huxley
1730
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
1731
Hitchins's Razor
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
It implies that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim; if this burden is not met, then the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it.
1731
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in.
Charles Kettering
1732
In politics, being deceived is no excuse.
Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher and historian of ideas
1733
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
1734
They day soldiers stop bringing you problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or have concluded that you do not care.
Colin Powell
1735
He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
One who has a ‘why’ to live for can endure almost any ‘how’.
If a man knows the wherefore of his existence, then the manner of it can take care of itself.
When one has one’s wherefore of life, one gets along with almost every how.
If we possess our why of life we can put up with almost any how.
Nietzsche said it first and then everybody else interpreted it.
1736
Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.
Claud Cockburn, British journalist and lover of Jean Ross (the inspiration for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles). He abandoned Ross after the birth of their daughter.
1737
My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, anyplace, anytime. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my arse.
Christopher Hitchins
1738
Music is one of the healthiest forms of transcendence and magic.
Moby
1739
In a time of destruction, create
something.
Maxine Hong Kingston, CHinese American author and teacher.
1740
If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya Angelou
1741
“Why are we doing it this way?" is a question that can be asked about everything.
William Donaldson
1742
As the saying goes, to find a needle in a haystack, you have to burn the haystack. The "needle" in this metaphor is the good guy.
Carlyn Beccia
1743
Cutting someone off mid-crow.
Stopping someone in the middle of their bragging.
1744
Mood follows action.
Reliance on motivation is not what it takes to get up and get going. Said another way: Don't think. Do.
1745
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
John Wooden
1746
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
German proverb
1747
The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace
are bound together.
Léon Blum, the first socialist and the first Jewish prime minister of France.
1748
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln, quoting from the New Testament, as he kicked off his 1858 campaign for the U.S. Senate.
1749
The life lie
Henrik Ibsen
The lie we need to believe in to get through to the next day.
1750
Can you survive truth?
Can you face reality?
Can you exist with the harshness of that?
What are we if not the stories we tell ourselves.
Henrik Ibsen
1751
These are the times in life - when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.
Rockwell Kent
1752
Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
Will Durant
Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
Will Durant
1753
The joy of losing yourself in food
Anthony Bourdain
1754
Chefs should be in the pleasure business, not the “look at me” business
Anthony Bourdain
1755
Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun, like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
Fred Rogers
1756
Our lives begin to end when we become silent about the things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1757
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
1758
Genius is a young man's game.
Anonymous
1759
When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all mankind.
Pauli Murray, African American writer, activist, lawyer and Episcopal priest
1760
When someone draws a circle to exclude me, I’ll draw a larger circle to include them.
Pauli Murray, African American writer, activist, lawyer and Episcopal priest
1761
Whatever you look at, you’re going to see more of it. Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Tom Bilyeu
1762
I seek disconfirming evidence in my life.
Tom Bilyeu
1763
We must turn to each other and not on each other.
Jesse Jackson
1764
Work doesn't work without play.
Shonda Rhimes
1765
Always remember: Silence and smile are two very powerful tools.
Paulo Coelho
1766
Vincit Qui Se Vincit
He conquers who conquers himself.
1767
Smallest viable audience: Find the smallest number of people for which you can be a generous contribution for which you can do work that matters. Not only is that enough to fuel us, but it will make everything better
Seth Godin
1768
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
Ba jin
1769
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
François de La Rochefoucauld
1770
Progress is not possible without deviation.
Frank Zappa
1771
Listen more than you tauk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.
Richard Branson
1772
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn
by doing and falling over.
Richard Branson
1773
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
Hafiz
1774
If we did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
1775
Most of us have two lives: the lives we live and the lives we are capable of living.
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
1776
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.
Richard Branson
1777
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Richard Branson
1778
Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.
“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.”
— Richard Branson
1779
I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living.
Richard Branson
1780
My definition of success? The more you're actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will be.
Richard Branson
1781
A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.
Richard Branson
1782
To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.
Richard Branson
1783
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
Richard Branson
1784
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life’s greatest pleasures.
Richard Branson
1785
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
Richard Branson
1786
Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.
Richard Branson
1787
The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.
Richard Branson
1788
“Having a personality of caring about people is important. You cant be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.”
— Richard Branson
Richard Branson
1789
“To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.”
— Richard Branson
Richard Branson
1790
There is no Planet B. We have to take care of the one we have.
Richard Branson
1791
Be the best at what you do.
Richard Branson
1792
Enjoy life – you only get one.
Richard Branson
1793
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson
1794
Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don’t waste time – grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it’s not fun, move on.
Richard Branson
1795
If you look after your staff, they’ll look after your customers. It’s that simple.
Richard Branson
1796
Remember it’s OK to be yourself.
Richard Branson
1797
The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.
Richard Branson
1798
Never look back in regret – move on to the next thing.
Richard Branson
1799
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
1800
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.
Charles Baudelaire
1801
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1802
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of
those who have suffered.
Oscar Wilde
1803
deep time
Living in deep time
The fullness of time, those “moments” where everything clicks, where past and present merge into a beautiful moment of clarity and fullness.
Richard Rohr, contemporary Franciscan priest
1804
It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
1805
If we take care of the minutes, the years will take care of themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
1806
Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public.
Krista Tippett
1807
I can disagree with your opinion, it turns out, but I can't disagree with your experience.
Krista Tippett
1808
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be
anybody but oneself.
Virginia Woolf
1809
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Richard Bach, author
1810
To be loved for what one is, is the great exception. The great majority love only what the lend him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1811
To be loved for what one is, is the greater exception, and the great majority love in another only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1812
Parkinson’s Law
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. -
C. Northcote Parkinson, English humorist and historian
1813
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
Pema Chödrön, Buddhist teacher and author
1814
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
1815
When an individual is reluctant to take the necessary actions required to accomplish a goal, it is an indication that they own their current comfort more than they own the future described in their vision.
Brian P Moran, The Twelve Week Year
1816
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
General George Patton
1817
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
George Shimm, the owner of the Charlotte Hornets
1818
Eventually everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
1819
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1820
Time is everything; time is quality.
Javier Bardem
1821
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden
1822
All my life I wanted to be somebody. Now I see I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
1823
If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up some place.
Yogi Berra
1824
In God we trust. All others must bring data.
W. Edwards Deming
1825
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans.
Peter Drucker
1826
Let him who would waste a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Ward Babson, American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
1827
I wrote about the two lives most of us have: the one we live and the one we are capable of living. Don't settle for anything less than the life you're capable of.
Brian P Moran, The Twelve Week Year
1828
There's np such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Jack Welch
1829
Make a list of the top 25 things you want out of life and then arrange them in order from the most important to the lease. The top five, should be those around which you organize your time. The remaining twenty aren’t the second-tier priorities to which you should turn when you get the chance. Far from it. In fact, they’re the ones you should actively avoid at all costs - because they’re the ambitions insufficiently important to you to form th core of your life yet seductive enough to distract you from the ones that matter most.
Warren Buffett
1830
YMMV
(also ymmv)
written abbreviation for your mileage may vary: used, for example on social media and in text messages and emails, to mean that you understand people may have a different opinion or experience than yours: Their first album is better, but of course YMMV.
1831
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken
1832
One day, if you have a little bit of talent and a lot of hard work, you're going to find out who you are.
Massimo Bottura, chef
1833
It's like being forced to go to a funeral the second time—the tears just don't flow as easily.
Gene Siskel
1834
Extracting the Michael
(British) It means to tease. More crudely, to take the piss out of someone....to tease them, not in a malicious way. Mickey is a variant of the name Michael, as is Mick. So just as a variation of saying "taking the mickey" some people say "taking the Michael", meaning to tease.
1835
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.
Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1836
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
Ida B. Wells
1837
In the end, some of your greatest pains become
your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore
1838
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell remarking that we mostly hear what we can understand.
1839
Stop giving power to people who don't believe in science.
Actor Harrison Ford is warning us to address the climate crisis before it's too late
1840
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Share this Quote Leonardo da Vinci
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. Share this Quote Paul P. Harris Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Share this Quote John Dalberg-Acton Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! Share this Quote Fyodor Dostoevsky Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Share this Quote Robert A. Heinlein The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Share this Quote Edmund Burke Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.
Eleanor Roosevelt
1841
Stop giving people power to control your smile, your worth, and your attitude.
Mandy Hale, author of The Single Woman
1842
Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
1843
Stop making excuses; you're the only one stopping you.
Issa Rae
1844
If You’re Not Living On The Edge, You’re Taking Up Too Much Space
Old saying
1845
How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.
Drake
1846
You are blind to diabetes, until you become blind from diabetes.
Robert Lustig, M.D.
1847
The behavior is secondary to the biochemistry. When you fix the biochemistry, the behavior improves.
Robert Lustig, M.D.
1848
If a professor leaves his students laughing, they will walk away remembering what they have learned.
Ruth Westheimer
1849
If you do it in good taste — and if you do it properly, then it can be — everything can be talked about. Everything.
Ruth Westheimer
1850
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
1851
"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no more war.
IRA (Irish Republian Army) after a failed attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
1852
No bird soars too high if he soars with its own wings.
Vala Afshar
1853
Ars gratia artis
Art for art's sake (MGM logo)
1854
The happiest people are those who have forged their own paths in life.
Dorothy Dix, Late 19th century/early 20t century American journalist and columnist
1855
A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.
Lois Wyse, American advertising executive
1856
It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.
Walt Whitman
1857
As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined.
Alexander Pope's Epistles to Several Persons (1732)
Proverbial saying, early 18th century; meaning that early influences have a permanent effect.
1858
Complaining is not a strategy. You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it to be.
Jeff Bezos
1859
Just because things hadn't gone the way l had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
Ann Patchett, American author
1860
I'd rather live with a tender heart, because that is the key to feeling the beat of all of the other hearts.
Jenny Slate
1861
I feel that we're all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.
Jim Carrey
1862
missing stair
a metaphor for a person within a social group or organization who many people know is untrustworthy or otherwise has to be "managed," but around whom the group chooses to work by discreetly warning newcomers of their behavior, rather than address the person and their behavior openly.
The term applies to and beyond sexually predatory behavior.
1863
The belly rules the mind.
Spanish proverb
1864
The belly rules the mind.
Spanish proverb
1865
Happiness is a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind.
The French monk Matthieu Ricard
1866
Mendoza Line
1867
apropos of nothing
to talk about something different
Without reference to anything.
Without any apparent reason or purpose.
1868
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you
but yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
1869
I would rather have a baby on my lap than on my conscience.
Eleanor "Sis" Daley when asked about abortion
1870
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
Jane Wagner, American writer, director, producer, and Lily Tomlin's partner
1871
You could be homecoming queen and valedictorian. There are no false choices at Howard.
Kamala Harris
1872
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
Jack Kerouac
1873
No idea is final.
Taika Waititi, New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian
1874
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley
1875
Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
1876
freedom of speech vs. freedom of reach
free speech vs. free reach
Freedom of speech controls government from controlling speech. Freedom of reach is a hypothetical freedom from moderation, and is sometimes referred to as the freedom to lie.
1877
freedom of reach
Freedom of reach is a relatively new concept, particularly relevant in the digital era. It refers to the extent to which content is disseminated across digital platforms. In other words, while you can say (almost) anything you want, how far your message travels online is a different matter.
1878
That's the very reason they put rubbers on the end of pencils... because people make mistakes.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
1879
Every day, better in every way. Everything is done with focus, heart, gratitude, love, care, purpose, intention, faith.
Niki Nakayama, Chef and owner, n/naka
1880
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
Pema Chödrön
1881
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
1882
Find your style and stick to it.
Manolo Blahnik
1883
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
1884
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
1885
We’ve looked into the future, and the future is ours.
Cesar Chavez's prediction in 1984
1886
I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Viola Davis
1887
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
1888
Believe in what can be, unburdened by what has been.
Kamala Harris
1889
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are
made up of light and shade.
Leo Tolstoy
1890
Playing to the cheap seats.
Trying to appeal to the masses
"The cheap seats" = "people who have little or no appreciation of good quality."
Trying to come up with sensational stories.
Trying to spice up your story.
1891
There is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed.
Kahlil Gibran
1892
If you teach a parrot to say “supply” and “demand,” you’ve got yourself a fine economist.
Old saying
1893
When you know what you stand for, you know what you fight for.
Kamala Harris
1894
I want your skecpticism to be your companion and not your captor.
Wes Moore
1895
Loving your country doesn't mean lying about its history.
Wes Moore
1896
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
Gloria Steinem
1897
The language is the character, the rhythm of her mind.
Cicely Berry, English theater director and vocal coach
1898
Overton Window
The range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.
It is also known as the window of discourse.
Unthinkable - Radical - Acceptable - Sensible - Popular - Policy - Popular - Sensible - Acceptable - Radical - Unthinkable
1899
Patience is also a form of action.
Auguste Rodin
1900
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Spurious quotation. Origin unknown.
1901
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten…..only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.
Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist
1902
You don't know when you make love for the last time, that you are making love for the last time. Voting is like that.
The hero of a David Lodge novel says that, but the voting part is from "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder
1903
Where annual elections end, tyranny begins.
Early American proverb
1904
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
1905
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not its idea of you.
James Baldwin
1906
There are times when dreams sustain us more
than facts.
Helen Fagin
1907
My heart is unlimited in the amount of love, but it is limited in the passion and commitment.
Dominique Levy
1908
Ugly is everything done to you in the name of beauty.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
1909
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anaïs Nin
1910
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
1911
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
1912
When people are feeling insecure, they’d rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.
Bill Clinton
1913
2024 will be won by who is fresh and who is rotten.
James Carville
1914
The shepherd of tomorrow wins the sheep.
James Carville
1915
Love is something that if you give it away, you end up having more.
Malvina Reynolds
1916
A lot of good things don't get made because of too
much thinking.
Agnes Martin
1917
The present is the only time in which any duty can be
done or any grace received.
C.S. Lewis
1918
tertium non datur
There is no third [option]
A statement asserting that a dichotomy defines the universe of possibilities.
1919
belt and suspenders approach
a colloquial phrase used to describe conservative lending practices.
involving or employing multiple methods or procedures to achieve a desired result especially out of caution or fear of failure.
It is based on the idea that wearing a belt and suspenders gives the user two redundant methods for holding up their pants.
1920
Tear everything down to the studs.
Gutting a house “to the studs” means taking it down to its original floor plan. Drywall, insulation and ceiling fixtures are stripped away, leaving nothing but beams and unfinished flooring.
By extension, to reduce something to its most minimal, basic, or fundamental elements.
1921
Vulnerability is important. You can't let your skin get
too thick.
Al Pacino
1922
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
1923
Healing begins where the wound was made.
Alice Walker
1924
First, they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent.
Bertrand Russell's reply when asked about how fascism starts.
1925
A person without imagination is like a
teabag without hot water.
Alan Fletcher, the godfather of British graphic design, Alan Fletcher was one of the leading pioneers of independent design after World War II.
1926
Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue.
When you are being hypocritical you are in essence acknowledging that a virtue is worthy of emulating -- you want to appear virtuous, even though you aren't actually acting virtuously.
1927
In marriage, when one doesn’t want, two don’t do it.
Old saying
1928
In vino veritas
In wine, there is truth.
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.
1929
Precisely at the time where one king arises to pillage our possessions and destroy us, another shall arise to protect and save us... This is an important lesson for future generations.
Nachmanides, 13th century Rabbi, physician, and biblical commentator
1930
de haut en bas
French for "from high to low"
adverb
of or with condescension
with haughtiness; condescendingly
in a condescending or superior manner.
"he never addressed his students de haut en bas"
adjective
condescending or superior in manner.
"he has a certain de haut en bas style"
1931
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Teresa of Ávila
1932
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything,
you will be happier.
Sri Chinmoy
1933
The best advice I ever got when I was starting out: Never give up. And I never did.
Rita Moreno
1934
dog's dinner
dog's breakfast
a confused mess or muddle; a complete mess
overdressed, or dressed in a garish, tasteless manner.
You describe something as a dog's breakfast or dog's dinner in order to express your disapproval of it, for example because it is very untidy, badly organized, or badly done. The whole place was a bit of a dog's dinner, really. Our own Board are going to make a dog's breakfast out of it if we aren't careful.
1935
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Stephen Covey
1936
The first time you do something only happens once.
Chris Burden
1937
No one continues to pay the plumber.
Orion Taraban about male/female relationships. He believes that once women have what they want from a relationship, they are no longer interested (like having no use for a plumber when he's fixed a leak).
1938
We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to US.
Bianca Sparacino, author
1939
liar's dividend (plural liar's dividends)
The benefit received by those spreading false information, whereby it becomes unclear what is true and what is not.
The benefit received by legitimizing debate about a lie by repeating it.
1940
Smiling for no reason is a sign of stupidity.
Russian saying
1941
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
1942
I'm an idealist. I don't know where l'm going, but l'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
1943
Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
1944
Every night we go to sleep without a guarantee of living tomorrow. Yet we still set an alarm. That is hope.
Unknown
1945
Morimur ridentes.
We die laughing
1946
Nascentes Morimur
Being born, We are dying
1947
toponymic
toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name, which included names of specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or lands that they held, or, more generically, names that were derived from regional topographic features.
1948
Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.
Herb Brooks
1949
“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Jean Giraudoux
1950
May you be in heaven a full half-hour before the devil knows you're dead.
Irish saying
1951
Vulnerability is like a connector... it connects you to the rest of the world.
Phil Stutz
1952
This is a wonderful day. I have seen this one before.
Maya Angelou
1953
Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa
1954
People avoid uncomfortable conversations to "keep the peace". But peace isn't the goal of a relationship. Love is. And when we love someone, we have the hard conversations in service of that love.
Jillian Turecki, relationship coach, teacher, podcaster
1955
In hard times, people don't want to be told to look on the bright side. They want to know you're on their side.
Even if you can't always help them feel better, you can always help them feel seen.
The best way to support others is not to cheer them up. It's to show up.
Adam Grant, organizational psychologist
1956
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
1957
The strongest guard stands at the gateway to nothing.
F Scott Fitzgerald
(The stronger the argument, the weaker the case.)
1958
If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give
up. There's a way out.
Stephen Hawking
1959
A clear rejection is better than fake promises.
Saying
1960
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
1961
To be a captain, you have to build a boat, learn to sail, and plot a course.
Orion Taraban
1962
Given the right conditions any society can turn against democracy
Anne Applebaum
1963
Maslow's Hammer
Maslow’s Hammer comes from psychologist Abraham Maslow’s old chestnut of wisdom: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
1964
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it.
Gilda Radner
1965
There are no solutions, only trade-offs
Thomas Sowell
1966
I never practice, l always play.
Wanda Landowska, Pianist and harpsichordist
1967
Titillation cures neither hollowness nor shallowness.
John Simon reviewing Pulp Fiction.
1968
What we perceive as reality is shaped by our very expectations.
F. Perry Wilson, Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale
1969
All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.
Nikki Giovanni
1970
It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look
back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look
back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
1971
Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first give an opinion column.
Saying
1972
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
1973
We need to be our most giant selves; to think our most giant thoughts, express ourselves in the biggest way possible, and give ourselves permission to be GIANTS.
Alicia Keys
1974
Whatever you do, make a promise to yourself that in 12 months you'll be in a better place than you are right now.
The Midnight City Band
1975
That's what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
IDK
1976
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
1977
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
1978
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey
1979
Nothing changes until something moves.
Albert Einstein
1980
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
1981
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
1982
The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart,
didn't love enough.
Ted Hughes
1983
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
1984
quelle horreur
what a horror
1985
1986
You don’t want to hear the truth - I know you’re upset, but we just going to upset you more.
Fannie Lou Hamer, 1968
1987
You don’t want to hear the truth - I know you’re upset, but we just going to upset you more.
Fannie Lou Hamer, 1968
1988
Work is love made visible.
Khalil Gibral
1989
Happiness can only be pursued indirectly.
John Stuart Mill
1990
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
1991
I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in
public — talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe
1992
Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.
Jonathan Sacks
1993
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks
them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
1994
Two countries divided by a common language.
US and UK
1995
À la minute
prepared very quickly and served immediately : not prepared in advance.
"at the minute" or "on the minute".
1996
What is that you so beautifully do?
Henry James is said to have once asked someone, somewhere or other.
1997
Change - real change - comes from the inside out.
Stephen Covey
1998
Ambigrams are typographical designs that allow words or phrases to be read in multiple orientations, often showcasing the designer’s creativity.
Ambigrams are typographical designs that allow words or phrases to be read in multiple orientations, often showcasing the designer’s creativity.
1999
Music don't owe anybody a living.
Levon Helm, musician
2000
And you know, playing-wise, music don’t owe anybody a living. Just because you play music, it ain’t supposed to make you rich or famous. It’s supposed to be your life, and it’s supposed to help you, and help those you love, and you’re supposed to play it, really try. And if you get a shot, if you get on national television, or if you get a record out that somebody can remember, great. That ought to encourage you not to quit, but it don’t mean a whole lot. You know, that was day before yesterday, and if that’s the best that any of us can do, it ain’t going to count for long. So, in case we can’t do any better, at least we can show up and have a good time.
Levon Helm, musician
2001
Living with regrets is like driving a car that only
moves in reverse.
Jodi Picoult
2002
You're focusing so much on what I say and not that I love you.
Killer Mikle
2002
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
2003
It’s beyond despicable to attempt to harm the career of a former lover, one whose success has left you far behind, years after she escaped your control.
Evelyn McDonnell writes in "The World According to Joan Didion" about Noel Parmentel.
2004
Well done...
Well done you! Well done Chap! Well done me!
This phrase can be used as encouragement and appreciation. It's excellent for congratulating younger individuals on a job well done.
2005
Bringing wonder to the modern world through the power of orchestral music
London Philharmonic
2006
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
2007
You don't know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.
Bob Marley
2008
e who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
2009
e who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
2010
The most successful people have the biggest ego, but the lowest self-esteem.
Mike Tyson
2011
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
2012
Rather than putting "Christ" back in Christmas, I'd settle for putting "Christ" back in Christians.
Anonymous
2013
Good clothes open all doors.
Thomas Fuller, 17th Century English clergyman
2014
Life can end at any second. So you have to work as if you were going to die at 100 and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Paul Bocuse
2015
It’s harder to be kind than clever.
Jeff Bezos’s grandfather
2016
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
Robin Williams
2017
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
2018
When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how othes see you. The misinformation will seem unfair, but stay above it, trusting that other people will eventually see the truth just like you did.
Anonymous
2019
Take forgiveness slowly. Don't blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.
Yoko Ono
2020
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf
2021
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
2022
People like to be served, but invisibly.
Cesar Ritz
2023
NYC brings your true self out but if you stay too long, it rubs that self down.
2024
Black people are hope addicts.
Dr. Ricky Jones
2025
The very real consequence of racism is that it distracts you.
Toni Morrison
2026
Revolutionaries read. Start there.
Dr. Ricky Jones
2027
I am all the things I have ever loved.
Toni Morrison
2028
When your house is on fire, you don't say all houses matter. We work together to put out the fire.
Poster on Beltline
2029
If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listen will feel its good effects without noticing.
Carlos Scarpa, Italian architect and designer
2030
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Anaïs Nin
2031
So briefly outline your problem, offer a solution if you have one, and then ask whom you should speak with to have the problem solved. “Should I speak to a manager about this?”
Jacob Tomsky
2032
Those who do not have will always serve those who do.
Jacob Tomsky
2033
A thousand moments I had taken for granted - mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.
Morgan Matson, American novelist
2034
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
2035
So when the ground is steady and the sky is clear, we should breathe deep until our lungs inflate against our ribs and hold in that one breath until we are light-headed with the privilege of being alive. The absolute privilege of being human.
Jacob Tomsky
2036
There’s a special place in hell for people who use children to promote their lies. This guy is right up there with Joe Camel.
Carlyn Beccia about Kash Patel's chiclren's book "The Plot Against the King - a fantastical retelling of “King Donald” wrongly accused of “cheating” to take the throne.
2037
Ego preservation has taught me to avoid inconvenient truths.
Bill Withers
2038
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
2039
And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row.
Vitas Gerulaitis after defeating Jimmy Connors at the January 1980 Masters.
2040
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
2041
Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
A.J. Liebling, New Yorker Staff writer and food writer
2042
The size and shape of my body has pretty much stayed the same. It's just more loosely wrapped.
Demi Moore describing a comment from a woman in her 70s.
2043
Nothing Is More Serious Than Pleasure
Claude Terrail, La Tour d’Argent
2044
If you wake up and the day feels broken, just lean into the crack.
Björk
2045
"Enough" is a feast.
Buddhist proverb
2046
Happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The thing that brings the greatest joy carry the greatest potential of loss and disappointment.
Unattributed
2047
Nothing is more serious than pleasure.
Jean Cocteau, French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic
2048
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work
in progress.
Octavia E. Butler
2049
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
Dale Carnegie
2050
Ail you have to do is take a ciose look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
Isaac Asimov
2051
In quietness the soul expands.
Rockwell Kent
2052
If you don’t take music seriously, it won’t take you seriously.
Saying
2053
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Stephen King
2054
There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.
Hannah Gadsby
2055
The man who’s too shy to talk to a girl fetching water at the stream will be fetching water at her wedding.
African proverb
2056
Black love is Black wealth
Nikki Giovanni
2057
What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?
NIkki Giovanni
2058
I wish I could say it got easier, but no, I've just learned to live with how hard it is.
The Audacity of Heartbreak
2059
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
Bruce Lee
2060
"In high dudgeon
very angry or unhappy
"In high dudgeon" is an idiom that means to be extremely angry or offended and to show it to others.
If you say that someone is in high dudgeon, you are emphasizing that they are very angry or unhappy about something.
2060
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling.
Édouard Manet
2061
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
Walt Whitman
2062
As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Proverbs 23:7
2063
Your thinking creates your reality.
Brian Moran
2064
We become what we think about.
Earl Nightingale, Amerian radio speaker and author
2065
l have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.
B. Smith
2066
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
Barbara Kingsolver
2067
The actors are the aperture between the audience and the story and you (the actor) should not be seen. The more transparent you are, then the more the audience gets to receive the story. You have to care more about the story more than you care about your own performance. You’re serving a writer and a director and you’re delivering their intent to the audience. Do everything you can possibly think of to deliver that to them.
Michael Shannon, actor
2068
If you follow the natural intentions, you get the most
success out of life.
RZA
2069
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
Mitch Albom
2070
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
2071
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
Steve Jobs
2072
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
2073
I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.
Stefano Pilati, Italina designer
2074
The gratification comes in the doing,
not in the results.
James Dean
2075
trip the light fantastic
dance
to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music
They planned to trip the light fantastic at the awards gala.
2076
Raising a child was the most humanizing of all loves. It is unconditional.
Diane Keaton
2077
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, l hope you have the strength to start all
over again.
Eric Roth
2078
When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.
Haruki Murakami
2079
A riot is the language of the unheard
Martin Luther King, Jr.
2080
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
2081
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens
2082
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis
2083
I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.
Jesse Eisenberg
2084
Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and Nobel Laureate
2085
The only “bad” decision you can make is one you didn’t think through and can’t explain.
Noa Ganot
2086
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
2087
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Pope John Paul II
2088
Old Man Yells at Cloud
Old Man Yelling at Cloud
a joke about people who complain about petty things and have outdated or old-fashioned opinions (like Grandpa, or Abe Simpson, from the show)
2089
Facts are stubborn things
Ronald Reagan, quoting John Adams.
2090
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.
Hermann Hesse
2091
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases
Carl Jung
2092
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
Virgil
2093
The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler, American writer, futurist, and businessman
2094
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for
heaven's sake.
Kurt Vonnegut
2095
Vivida vis animi
lively force of the mind" or "vigor of mind and body" in English, reflecting a strong mental energy or spirit.
2096
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
Anne Frank
2097
Plant and tend a friendship garden that will grow and flourish.
Emily Whaley
2098
Most of the people walking around, regardless of what their driver's license says, are between 8 and 12.
Orion Taraban
2099
Suffering is pain + judgment
Pain is everywhere around us.
Path of You can learn through pain or you can learn through light. Pain is a wonderful teacher because pain never lies. It doesn't care about your feelings. It will tell you the honest, brutal truth in a way your love ones, your therapist, your priests wont. Pain will give you directhonest feedback when your behavior aligns with reality. You expereince pain when our mental models cause us to react in spite of reality. There is a belief that reality should be other than how it is.
Orion Taraban
2100
Nothing is wasted on the writer
Crescent Dragonwagon (Ellen Zolotow)
2101
The truth is the light and light is the truth.
Ralph Ellison
2102
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
2103
There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.
Mel Robbins
2104
Stay busy. Be useful.
These four words have been a guiding star for Arnold Schwarzenegger, and “spurred him on a lifelong journey of continuous growth.
2105
Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King Jr.
2106
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
William Somerset Maugham
2107
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
2108
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.
George Seaton Bowes
2109
tripping the light fantastic
dancing
2110
I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
Jane Austen
2111
Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we
least expect it.
Jodi Picoult
2112
The winds and waves are always on the side of the
ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
2113
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his
back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2114
The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.
Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review.
2115
Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.
River Phoenix
2116
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith
2117
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
Elbert Hubbard
2118
One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.
Abraham Verghese
2119
Success isn't about how your life looks to others; it's
about how it feels to you.
Michelle Obama
2120
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
2121
Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.
Isabel Ibañez, Bolivian American author
2122
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain
permanently confused. Anything is possible.
George Saunders
2123
Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.
Jack Kornfield
2124
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
2125
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan Watts, British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.
2126
If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.
Colson Whitehead
2127
It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.
Gabrielle Zevin
2128
You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final
defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2129
Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.
Todd Henry
2130
If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.
Damian Lillard
2131
You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.
Sherwood Anderson
2132
If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.
Leo Tolstoy
2133
Dehumanization is the real point of modern concepts of beauty. Those who set, regulate and sell these standards profit the most.
2134
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2135
You will never get any more out of life than you expect.
Bruce Lee
2136
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
Richard Paul Evans
2137
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
Osip Mandelstam
2138
Pretend you're more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.
Buddy Wakefield, American spoken-word artist and poet who’s been featured by NPR and the BBC for his talents.
2139
Admire as much as you can, most people don't
admire enough.
Vincent Van Gogh
2140
Despair is the autocrat’s tool.
Despair is the tool of the autorat.
Nicolle Wallace
2141
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
2142
The 11th Commandment is important: Don’t be indifferent. Do not be indifferent when you see historical lies. Do not be indifferent when any minority is discriminated. Do not be indifferent when power violates a social contract.
If you are indifferent, before you know it another Auschwitz will come out of the blue for you or your descendants.
Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who returned to his native Poland after World War II to give voice to fellow victims of the Nazis and their collaborators, warning the world in writings and speeches about the dangers of indifference to racial and ethnic injustice.
2143
Auschwitz did not fall from the sky. It began with small forms of persecution of Jews. It happened; it means it can happen anywhere. That is why human rights and democratic constitutions must be defended.
Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who returned to his native Poland after World War II to give voice to fellow victims of the Nazis and their collaborators, warning the world in writings and speeches about the dangers of indifference to racial and ethnic injustice.
2144
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
2145
Writing isn’t about following a trend. It’s following the thing that won’t leave you alone.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
2146
Boys are supposed to ruin your lipstick not your mascara.
Marilyn Monroe
2147
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty
2148
Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!
Meryl Streep
2149
nascent morimur
We begin to die as soon as we're born (Manilius, Astronomica, 4.16)
2150
morimur ridentes
we die laughing
2151
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.
Jane Goodall
2152
I found my place when I stopped looking for it.
Mahershala Ali
2153
You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
2154
We inhabit a climate of trust as we inhabit an atmosphere, and notice it as we notice air, only when it becomes scarce or polluted.
Annette Baier, philosopher
2155
You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.
Cornel West
2156
Capers, in my opinion, enhance virtually any pork dish.
James Villas
2157
Some things are best mended by a break.
Edith Wharton
2158
The older I get the faster days go by. This is why I live free til the day I die.
Chapter Invisible
2159
Resilience - the ability to brush off pain.
Kristen Roupenian
2160
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and
philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
2161
I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily Dickinson
2162
Belt to ass
Putting belt to ass
To whoop somebody ass in a game and or to beat them in something.
2163
Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
Joan Didion
2164
I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.
Frank Langella
2165
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka
2166
It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.
Georgia O'Keeffe
2167
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Keanu Reeves
2168
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
2169
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
2170
Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, Learn, go on.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
2171
Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.
bell hooks
2172
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
2173
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
2174
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.
Fred Rogers
2175
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison
2176
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
2177
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T.S. Eliot
2178
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
2179
It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.
Black Francis
2180
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
Carlos Slim Helú
2181
The stock market is probably the worst investment vehicle out there… NEVER put your money in something where you don’t have an information advantage.
Mark Cuban
2182
Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely
human.
Ann Lauterbach, American poet
2183
When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.
Toni Morrison
2184
I don't have to explain myself. My frequency is very common and is open to anybody to tune in.
RuPaul
2185
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock 🎬
2186
Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.
E.B. White
2187
A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
Daisaku Ikeda
2188
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than
walk alone in the light.
Helen Keller
2189
Every storm runs out of rain.
Maya Angelou
2190
The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Chinua Achebe
2191
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
2192
All experience is great providing you live through it.
Alice Neel, artist
2193
In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
Carl Sagan
2194
You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.
Sheila Heti
2195
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention... To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry Rollins, iconic punk artist
2196
We suffer more often in imagination than in
reality.
Seneca
2197
The Overton Window
the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.
It is also known as the window of discourse.
The key to the concept is that the window changes over time; it can shift, or shrink or expand.
It exemplifies "the slow evolution of societal values and norms"
2198
Forgiveness ... is a gift of high value. Yet its
cost is nothing.
Betty Smith, American author
2199
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Charles Wagner
2200
Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.
lain McGilchrist, British psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and philosopher
2201
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by
the seeds you plant.
William A. Ward
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by
the seeds you plant.
William A. Ward
2202
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for writing “Anne of Green Gables.”
2203
Ham and Eggs
In this union, the hen was a participant, while the hog had to make a commitment.
2204
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
Cheryl Strayed, author
2205
Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.
Anne Truitt
2206
Success is the process itself.
Matt Damon
2207
Somewhere, something incredible
is waiting to be known.
Sharon Begley, journalist
2208
Much hurt and many problems result when we stop looking at one another.
Amoris Laetitia, 128
2209
Manners can be a bit heavy, like hiking boots!
Pope Francis in an address
2210
There’s a public understanding of me that’s different from who I am.
Natalie Portman
2211
My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.
Emery Lord, novelist
2212
Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
Luvvie Ajayi
2213
If there's love in a house, it's a palace
for sure.
Tom Waite
2214
The only lasting truth is change.
Octavia Butler
2215
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anaïs Nin
2216
The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.
Spike Jonze
2217
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks
2218
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
2219
It's the artists who do the dreaming for society.
Méret Oppenheim
2220
“When people ask me, ‘How are you?’ I often say, ‘making progress.’ I don’t mention which direction.”
Alan Alda
2221
I don’t get “proud” about things. I get “glad I’m able to do things.”
Alan Alda
