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I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. — Donald Trump · 2016 I alone can fix it. — Donald Trump · 2016 I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump · 2015 My position as regards the moneyed interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily, and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand, for property belongs to man and not man to property. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1910 When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best... They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. — Donald Trump · 2015 Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now. — Donald Trump · 2017 All 25 quotes →

Comedy (stand up)23 quotes

Relationships: easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Cause it’s hard to keep up the lie. 'Cause you can't get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can't get nobody lookin' like you look, actin' like you act, soundin' like you sound. That's right, when you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative! — Chris Rock · 1999 What the fuck do women want? I know what you want: everything. — Chris Rock · 1999 Prenuptial agreement. Everybody needs a prenup! People think you gotta be rich to get a prenup, oh no! You got 20 million, your wife want 10, big deal, you ain't starvin'. But if you make 30 thousand, and your wife want 15, you might have to kill her! — Chris Rock · 1996 You could be the baddest mama on earth. I don’t give a fuck how good you are. Ain't nothing you can say more powerful than, "I’m gonna tell your daddy." — Chris Rock · 1999 There ain't a white man in this room that would change places with me. None of ya! None of ya would change places with me...and I'm rich! That's how good it is to be white. — Chris Rock · 1999 I am scared of young white boys. If you white and under 21 I am running for the hills. — Chris Rock · 1999 All 23 quotes →

Psychological literature17 quotes

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. — William James · 1890 We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. — William James · 1890 Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? — William James · 1896 If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. — Abraham Maslow · 1966 Some people are far more sensitive to resemblances, and far more ready to point out wherein they consist, than others are. They are the wits, the poets, the inventors, the scientific men, the practical geniuses. — William James · 1890 Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow · 1966 All 17 quotes →

Scientific literature16 quotes

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. — Abraham Maslow · 1966 Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow · 1966 For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. — Robert Jastrow · 1978 We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. — Carl Sagan · 1980 A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1975 In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." — Stephen Jay Gould · 1983 All 16 quotes →

Great American songbook15 quotes

There's no business like show business. — Irving Berlin · 1946 God bless America, Land that I love, Stand beside her and guide her Through the night with a light from above. From the mountains to the prairies, To the oceans white with foam, God bless America, My home sweet home. — Irving Berlin · 1938 Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you. — Irving Berlin · 1946 Oh, what a beautiful mornin' Oh, what a beautiful day. I got a beautiful feelin' Everything's going my way. — Rodgers and Hammerstein · 1943 I like to be in America! Ok by me in America! Everything free in America For a small fee in America! — Stephen Sondheim · 1957 Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things. — Rodgers and Hammerstein · 1959 All 15 quotes →

Political literature13 quotes

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without. — Walt Whitman · 1871 What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy. — Francis Fukuyama · 1989 There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil. — Walter Lippmann · 1920 No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1903 It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted. — Walt Whitman · 1871 Always vote. — Walt Whitman · 1871 All 13 quotes →

Hip hop11 quotes

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of not trying. — Jay-Z · 2006 You gotta fight For your right To party. — Beastie Boys · 1986 Cash rules everything around me C. R. E. A. M., get the money Dollar dollar bill, y'all — Wu-Tang Clan · 1994 Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge I'm tryin' not to lose my head It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from going under. — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five · 1982 Birthdays was the worst days Now we sip champagne when we thirsty. — The Notorious B.I.G. · 1994 And even as a crack fiend, Mama You always was a black queen, Mama. — Tupac · 1995 All 11 quotes →

Comedy (TV)10 quotes

I'm feeling pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good. — Larry David · 2001 I do hate myself but it has nothing to do with being Jewish. — Larry David · 2001 Do you respect wood, Susie? — Larry David · 2009 Bald asshole? That’s a hate crime. We're a set, we're a group. — Larry David · 2001 I just-I can’t stand the sound of the human voice. — Larry David · 2009 There's a jet stream of bullshit coming out of your mouth, my friend. — Larry David · 2004 All 10 quotes →

Historical literature8 quotes

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. — Barbara Tuchman · 1972 Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip, and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war. — Barbara Tuchman · 1962 A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them—without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret... Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending that animals do not feel pain... It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer... The behavior of other animals, especially the chimps and bonobos, renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. — Carl Sagan · 1992 Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. — Lewis Mumford · 1931 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. — Robert Maynard Hutchins · 1954 No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge... You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. — Colson Whitehead · 2003 All 8 quotes →

Legal writing6 quotes

Campaign promises are-by long democratic tradition-the least binding form of human commitment. — Antonin Scalia · 2002 Of that freedom one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. — Benjamin Cardozo · 1937 It was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that, in the long run, prosperity and salvation are in union, and not division. — Benjamin Cardozo · 1935 When urgent considerations of the public safety require compromise with the normal principles constraining law enforcement, the normal principles may have to bend. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. — Richard Posner · 1999 Immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states. — Benjamin Cardozo · 1937 Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep's clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf. — Antonin Scalia · 1988

Philosophical literature6 quotes

Man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. — Eric Hoffer · 1982 A minimal state, limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified; that any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right. — Robert Nozick · 1974 One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise. — Carl Sagan · 1995 The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. — Eric Hoffer · 1973 To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are. — Marshall Berman · 1982 It isn't just that I don't believe in God... It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that. — Thomas Nagel · 1997

Autobiography and memoir5 quotes

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. — Donald Trump · 1987 In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. — Edith Wharton · 1934 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt · 1937 Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. — Sammy Davis, Jr. · 1965 The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from. — Moss Hart · 1959

Comedy5 quotes

They don't grade fathers but if your daughter's a stripper, you fucked up! — Chris Rock · 2004 Long as you live you ain't never gonna see no black vice president. Not while the president's white. They tell you to never say never? I'm saying never. You know why? Cause some black guy would just kill the president, that's why! Shit, I'd do it! — Chris Rock · 1996 When you got a career, there ain't enough time in the day. You look at your watch, time just flies, like God damn, whoa, it's 5:35! Damn, I gotta come in early tomorrow and work on my project. Cause there ain't enough time when you got a career. When you got a job, there's too much time. That's right, you look at your watch like, ah shit. 9:08. — Chris Rock · 2009 When guys cheat, it’s like we want something new. But then you know what happens? Your woman finds out, and now she’s new. She is never the same again. — Chris Rock · 2018 When you’re in a relationship, you’re in a band. And when you’re in a band you have roles that you play in the band. Sometimes you sing lead, and sometimes you’re on tambourine. — Chris Rock · 2008

Feminist literature4 quotes

Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action. — Audre Lorde · 1984 The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice Rossi · 1973 Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. — Erica Jong · 1973 Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning and women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives. — Alice Rossi · 1973

Folk music4 quotes

We will all go together when we go, All suffused with an incandescent glow. — Tom Lehrer · 1959 A dragon lives forever, But not so, little boys Painted wings and giants' rings Make way for other toys. — Peter, Paul and Mary · 1963 Remember the war against Franco? That's the kind where each of us belongs. Though he may have won all the battles, We had all the good songs. — Tom Lehrer · 1965 Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome, some day. — Pete Seeger · 1962

Pop music4 quotes

People, people who need people Are the luckiest people in the world. — Barbra Streisand · 1964 When the working day is done Oh girls, they wanna have fun Oh, girls just wanna have fun — Cyndi Lauper · 1979 I was born this way. — Lady Gaga · 2011 A dragon lives forever, But not so, little boys Painted wings and giants' rings Make way for other toys. — Peter, Paul and Mary · 1963

Philosophical speech3 quotes

I firmly disbelieve, myself, that our human experience is the highest form of experience extant in the universe. I believe rather that we stand in much the same relation to the whole of the universe as our canine and feline pets do to the whole of human life. They inhabit our drawing-rooms and libraries. They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling. They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken. So we are tangent to the wider life of things. — William James · 1906 The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos. — William James · 1906 I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. — William James · 1906

Religious literature3 quotes

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? — William James · 1896 For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. — Robert Jastrow · 1978 Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton · 1955

Folk rock2 quotes

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again. — Simon & Garfunkel · 1964 A man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest. — Simon & Garfunkel · 1970

Musical2 quotes

Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? — Yip Harburg · 1932 A foggy day in London Town Had me low and had me down. I viewed the morning with alarm. The British Museum had lost its charm. — Ira Gershwin · 1937

Anthropology1 quote

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities. — Ruth Benedict · 1934

Biography1 quote

So we think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. — Norman Mailer · 1973

Children's literature1 quote

Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot. — Maurice Sendak · 1963

Comedy (play)1 quote

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone. — Wendy Wasserstein · 1981

Commencement address1 quote

It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace, a peace that would last. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable. — J. Robert Oppenheimer · 1946

Dissenting opinion1 quote

Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep's clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf. — Antonin Scalia · 1988

Documentary (film)1 quote

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." — J. Robert Oppenheimer · 1965

Economical literature1 quote

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are. — Marshall Berman · 1982

Musical (film)1 quote

A foggy day in London Town Had me low and had me down. I viewed the morning with alarm. The British Museum had lost its charm. — Ira Gershwin · 1937

Musical (play)1 quote

Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? — Yip Harburg · 1932

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