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Autobiography and memoir12 quotes

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol · 1975 May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. — Edward Abbey · 1968 To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. — John Updike · 1989 Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. — Andy Warhol · 1975 The most exciting thing is not-doing-it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting. — Andy Warhol · 1975 I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. — Andy Warhol · 1975 All 12 quotes →

Political speech5 quotes

I feel an humble confidence that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of government and union ever devised by man will not suffer it to perish until it shall have been peacefully instrumental by its example in the extension of civil and religious liberty throughout the world. — James Buchanan · 1857 All agree that under the Constitution slavery in the States is beyond the reach of any human power except that of the respective States themselves wherein it exists. — James Buchanan · 1857 No more revenue ought to be collected from the people than the amount necessary to defray the expenses of a wise, economical, and efficient administration of the Government. — James Buchanan · 1857 The Federal Constitution is a grant from the States to Congress of certain specific powers, and the question whether this grant should be liberally or strictly construed has more or less divided political parties from the beginning. — James Buchanan · 1857 We ought to cherish a sacred regard for the independence of all nations, and never attempt to interfere in the domestic concerns of any unless this shall be imperatively required by the great law of self-preservation. — James Buchanan · 1857

Commencement address3 quotes

You don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you. — Fred Rogers · 2002 Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related. — Fred Rogers · 2002 It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff. — Fred Rogers · 2002

Scientific literature3 quotes

For all at last returns to the sea...the beginning and the end. — Rachel Carson · 1951 The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, and then returned. For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same. — Rachel Carson · 1955 The sea lies all about us. The commerce of all lands must cross it. The very winds that move over the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at least return to the sea—to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. — Rachel Carson · 1951

Comedy2 quotes

Roses are red, violets are blue, Jazz and I are black, but Carlton what are you? — Will Smith · 1990 Have you always been this stuck up, or did it take, like, years of practice? — Will Smith · 1991

Comedy (TV)2 quotes

Roses are red, violets are blue, Jazz and I are black, but Carlton what are you? — Will Smith · 1990 Have you always been this stuck up, or did it take, like, years of practice? — Will Smith · 1991

Coming of age story2 quotes

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999 And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999

Nature writing2 quotes

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, and then returned. For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same. — Rachel Carson · 1955 The sea lies all about us. The commerce of all lands must cross it. The very winds that move over the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at least return to the sea—to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. — Rachel Carson · 1951

Sitcom2 quotes

Roses are red, violets are blue, Jazz and I are black, but Carlton what are you? — Will Smith · 1990 Have you always been this stuck up, or did it take, like, years of practice? — Will Smith · 1991

Sociology2 quotes

There must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street. The buildings on a street equipped to handle strangers and to insure the safety of both residents and strangers, must be oriented to the street. They cannot turn their backs or blank sides on it and leave it blind. — Jane Jacobs · 1961 This book is about the organization man...The people I am talking about...are not the workers, nor are they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well. — William H. Whyte · 1956

Business literature1 quote

In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first. — Frederick Winslow Taylor · 1911

Political literature1 quote

Warfare... Is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead · 1940

Psychological literature1 quote

As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. — Margaret Mead · 1928

Travel writing1 quote

Why this cult of wilderness?... Peace is often mentioned; beauty; spiritual refreshment, whatever that means; re-creation for the soul, whatever that is; escape; novelty, the delight of something different; truth and understanding and wisdom-commendable virtues in any man, anytime; ecology and all that, meaning the salvation of variety, diversity, possibility and potentiality, the preservation of the genetic reservoir, the answers to questions that we have not yet even learned to ask, a connection to the origin of things, an opening into the future, a source of sanity for the present-all true, all wonderful, all more than enough to answer such a dumb dead degrading question as "Why wilderness?" To which, nevertheless, I shall append one further answer anyway: because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. — Edward Abbey · 1971

Young adult1 quote

I just want you to know that you're very special... And the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999