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Religious literature807 quotes
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — Jesus · 90It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. — Jesus · 60A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCAbandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. — Jesus · 60So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. — Jesus · 60All 807 quotes →Philosophical literature633 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. — Socrates · 400 BCThe unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates · 399 BCIn such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651And with the guts of the last priest
Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772Man is the measure of all things. — Protagoras · 420 BCAll 633 quotes →Political speech563 quotes
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1963The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1933With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. — Abraham Lincoln · 1865Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. — Abraham Lincoln · 1863We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. — Abraham Lincoln · 1861And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. — John F. Kennedy · 1961All 563 quotes →Political literature465 quotes
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Declaration of Independence · 1776The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. — Karl Marx · 1848In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs! — Karl Marx · 1883All 465 quotes →Drama376 quotes
You can't handle the truth! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992A man got to have a code. — Omar Little · 2006It's classified. I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya. — Maverick · 1986My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. — Forrest Gump · 1994Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983You come at the king, you best not miss. — Omar Little · 2002All 376 quotes →Comedy373 quotes
He’s nice, bit of a close talker. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1994If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1994My advice to you is to start drinking heavily. — Bluto · 1978To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. — Homer Simpson · 1997You can't believe this woman. She's one of these low-talkers. You can't hear a word she's saying! You're always going "excuse me?", "what was that?" — Jerry Seinfeld · 1993I’m a great quitter. It’s one of the few things I do well. I come from a long line of quitters. — George Costanza · 1993All 373 quotes →Drama (film)304 quotes
You can't handle the truth! — Col. Nathan R. Jessep · 1992It's classified. I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya. — Maverick · 1986My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. — Forrest Gump · 1994Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999Wax on, wax off. — Mr. Miyagi · 1984All 304 quotes →Autobiography and memoir215 quotes
Give me chastity and continency—but not yet! — St. Augustine · 398Our heart is restless until it rests in you. — St. Augustine · 400Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854All 215 quotes →Comedy (film)212 quotes
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily. — Bluto · 1978Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. — Inigo Montoya · 1987Yeah, that's what she said. — Wayne Campbell · 1992Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. — Dean Vernon Wormer · 1978You'll shoot your eye out. — Mother Parker · 1983That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age. — David Wooderson · 1993All 212 quotes →Historical literature186 quotes
I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar · 46 BCHope is a waking dream. — Aristotle · 240One soul dwelling in two bodies. — AristotleHappiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. — Pericles · 430 BCIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. — Charles Dickens · 1859Old to grow, but ever learning. — Solon · 119All 186 quotes →Tragedy (play)177 quotes
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare · 1616To be or not to be—that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep—
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. — William Shakespeare · 1616My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep. The more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare · 1597What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? — William Shakespeare · 1616Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. — William Shakespeare · 1616One lives but once in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774All 177 quotes →Crime155 quotes
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. — Don Vito Corleone · 1972A man got to have a code. — Omar Little · 2006Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983You come at the king, you best not miss. — Omar Little · 2002Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever. — Michael Corleone · 1972All 155 quotes →Comedy (play)143 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. — William Shakespeare · 1599Good counselors lack no clients. — William Shakespeare · 1616The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. — William Shakespeare · 1602Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love. — William Shakespeare · 1594Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. — George Bernard Shaw · 1909All 143 quotes →Comedy (TV)140 quotes
He’s nice, bit of a close talker. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1994If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1994To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. — Homer Simpson · 1997You can't believe this woman. She's one of these low-talkers. You can't hear a word she's saying! You're always going "excuse me?", "what was that?" — Jerry Seinfeld · 1993I’m a great quitter. It’s one of the few things I do well. I come from a long line of quitters. — George Costanza · 1993You dipped the chip. You took a bite. And you dipped again. That’s like putting your whole mouth right in the dip! From now on, when you take a chip-just take one dip and end it. — Timmy · 1993All 140 quotes →Comedy drama121 quotes
Help me, help you. Help me, help you. — Jerry Maguire · 1996I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996Show me the money! — Rod Tidwell · 1996This is New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. — Melvin Udall · 1997You had me at hello. — Dorothy Boyd · 1996Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchased in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life...but why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? — Mark Renton · 1996All 121 quotes →Comedy drama (film)115 quotes
Help me, help you. Help me, help you. — Jerry Maguire · 1996I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996Show me the money! — Rod Tidwell · 1996This is New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. — Melvin Udall · 1997You had me at hello. — Dorothy Boyd · 1996Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchased in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life...but why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? — Mark Renton · 1996All 115 quotes →Scientific literature115 quotes
There is grandeur in this view of life...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. — Charles Darwin · 1859Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. — Charles Darwin · 1871I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin · 1859Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon. — Isaac Newton · 1687Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts. — Isaac Newton · 1687Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if we only face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open." — Nicolaus Copernicus · 1543All 115 quotes →Science fiction114 quotes
I am your father. — Darth Vader · 1980Hasta la vista, baby. — The Terminator · 1991May the Force be with you. — Jan Dodonna · 1977No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try. — Yoda · 1980E.T. Phone home. — E.T. · 1982You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. — Morpheus · 1999All 114 quotes →Biography111 quotes
I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar · 46 BCOne soul dwelling in two bodies. — AristotlePatriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson · 1778One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost. — Pyrrhus · 279 BCIf you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. — Mark Zuckerberg · 2010The triumph of hope over experience. — Samuel Johnson · 1784All 111 quotes →Crime (film)109 quotes
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. — Don Vito Corleone · 1972Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! — Tony Montana · 1983Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever. — Michael Corleone · 1972You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. — Terry Malloy · 1954You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah, yeah. Okay. — Travis Bickle · 1976All 109 quotes →Epic poem101 quotes
Fortune favors the brave. — Virgil · 19 BCAbandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCZeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. — Homer · 700 BCAmong all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards. — Homer · 700 BCOf all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man. — Homer · 700 BCAll 101 quotes →Action98 quotes
Hasta la vista, baby. — The Terminator · 1991It's classified. I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya. — Maverick · 1986Go ahead, make my day. — Harry Callahan · 1983I'm too old for this shit! — Roger Murtaugh · 1987Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. — John Patrick Mason · 1996You're on a need-to-know basis, and you don't need to know. — Stanley Goodspeed · 1996All 98 quotes →Action (film)98 quotes
Hasta la vista, baby. — The Terminator · 1991It's classified. I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya. — Maverick · 1986Go ahead, make my day. — Harry Callahan · 1983I'm too old for this shit! — Roger Murtaugh · 1987Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. — John Patrick Mason · 1996You're on a need-to-know basis, and you don't need to know. — Stanley Goodspeed · 1996All 98 quotes →Legal writing97 quotes
This right of privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. — Harry A. Blackmun · 1973The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. — John Marshall · 1803Taxes are what we pay for civilized society. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. · 1927The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. — Louis Brandeis · 1928The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. — Hugo Black · 1947The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections. — Robert H. Jackson · 1943All 97 quotes →Romantic comedy94 quotes
Help me, help you. Help me, help you. — Jerry Maguire · 1996I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996Show me the money! — Rod Tidwell · 1996This is New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. — Melvin Udall · 1997You had me at hello. — Dorothy Boyd · 1996I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. — Don Lockwood · 1952All 94 quotes →History (play)91 quotes
See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! — William Shakespeare · 1597Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare · 1599I am not in the roll of common men. — William Shakespeare · 1597There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare · 1597There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. — William Shakespeare · 1599Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. — William Shakespeare · 1599All 91 quotes →Epic85 quotes
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. — Rhett Butler · 1939I am your father. — Darth Vader · 1980I'm the king of the world! — Jack Dawson · 1997Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974May the Force be with you. — Jan Dodonna · 1977No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try. — Yoda · 1980All 85 quotes →Epic (film)85 quotes
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. — Rhett Butler · 1939I am your father. — Darth Vader · 1980I'm the king of the world! — Jack Dawson · 1997Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Michael Corleone · 1974May the Force be with you. — Jan Dodonna · 1977No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try. — Yoda · 1980All 85 quotes →Romantic comedy (film)85 quotes
Help me, help you. Help me, help you. — Jerry Maguire · 1996I love you. You...complete me. — Jerry Maguire · 1996Show me the money! — Rod Tidwell · 1996This is New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. — Melvin Udall · 1997You had me at hello. — Dorothy Boyd · 1996I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. — Don Lockwood · 1952All 85 quotes →Science fiction (film)83 quotes
I am your father. — Darth Vader · 1980Hasta la vista, baby. — The Terminator · 1991May the Force be with you. — Jan Dodonna · 1977No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try. — Yoda · 1980E.T. Phone home. — E.T. · 1982You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. — Morpheus · 1999All 83 quotes →