Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia Woolf
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
Rebecca Solnit
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
Virginia Woolf
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I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.
Geena Davis
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It's all about money, not freedom, y'all, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?
Bill Hicks
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We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.
Darryl Glenn
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Politics is a lot tougher than physics.
Burton Richter
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
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I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America, so, granted, it is part of our heritage, and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
Edmund Phelps
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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Thomas Aquinas
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Stretching exercises in the morning for face & body or my body feels heavy and I can't do anything else.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
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Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
William Shakespeare
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The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames
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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
Virginia Woolf
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east.
James A. Michener
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The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
Octavia E. Butler
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They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
Bobby Fischer
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
C. Wright Mills
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.
Erykah Badu
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
Virginia Woolf
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
Salma Hayek