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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 The greatest gift you will ever give is your honest self. — Fred Rogers · 2003 There is only one thing evil cannot stand and that is forgiveness. — Fred Rogers · 2003 You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today. — Fred Rogers · 2003 All 23 quotes →

John Updike12 quotes

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. — John Updike · 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 Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the others players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters. — John Updike · 1960 Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. — John Updike · 1983 Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. — John Updike · 1989 Without the cold war, what's the point of being an American? — John Updike · 1990 All 12 quotes →

Andy Warhol7 quotes

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol · 1975 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 A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. — Andy Warhol · 1975 An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them. — Andy Warhol · 1975 All 7 quotes →

James Buchanan5 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

Rachel Carson5 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 Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. — Rachel Carson · 1958 Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. — Rachel Carson · 1962

Margaret Mead4 quotes

Warfare... Is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead · 1940 Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother. — Margaret Mead · 1962 Historically our own culture has relied for the creation of rich and contrasting values upon many artificial distinctions, the most striking of which is sex...If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. — Margaret Mead · 1935 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

Edward Abbey3 quotes

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. — Edward Abbey · 1968 Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984 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

Ezra Pound3 quotes

Died some, pro patria, Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'… Walked eye-deep in hell Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving Came home, home to a lie. — Ezra Pound · 1920 All great art is born of the metropolis. — Ezra Pound · 1913 There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization. — Ezra Pound · 1920

Stephen Chbosky3 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 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

B.F. Skinner2 quotes

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. — B.F. Skinner · 1969 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner · 1964

Stephen Vincent Benet2 quotes

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat. — Stephen Vincent Benet · 1927 I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse, I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmédy. I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. — Stephen Vincent Benet · 1927

Wallace Stevens2 quotes

Style is not something applied. It is something inherent, something that permeates. — Wallace Stevens · 1951 A great deal of my poetry has been written while I have been out walking. — Wallace Stevens · 1954

Will Smith2 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

A.S.W. Rosenbach1 quote

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all. — A.S.W. Rosenbach · 1936

Alice Neel1 quote

All experience is great providing you live through it. — Alice Neel · 2002

Ambrose Bierce1 quote

To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. — Ambrose Bierce · 1906

Annie Dillard1 quote

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. — Annie Dillard · 1990

Christopher Morley1 quote

There is only one success, he said to himself-to be able to spend your life in your own way. — Christopher Morley · 1922

Ethel Barrymore1 quote

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros. — Ethel Barrymore · 1953

Frank Buchman1 quote

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. — Frank Buchman · 1938

Fred Rodell1 quote

The Law is the killy-loo bird of the sciences. The killy-loo, of course, was the bird that insisted on flying backward because it didn't care where it was going but was mightily interested in where it had been... Only The Law, inexorably devoted to all its most ancient principles and precedents, makes a vice of innovation and a virtue of hoariness. — Fred Rodell · 1939

Frederick Winslow Taylor1 quote

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

George C. Marshall1 quote

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. — George C. Marshall · 1947

Henry George1 quote

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. — Henry George · 1879

Jane Jacobs1 quote

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

Jean Kerr1 quote

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. — Jean Kerr · 1960

Joe Namath1 quote

We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it. — Joe Namath · 1969

Keith Haring1 quote

Usually the people who are the most generous are the people who have the least to give. I learned this first hand as a newspaper carrier when I was 12 years old. The biggest tips came from the poorest people. — Keith Haring · 1986

Marian Anderson1 quote

Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. — Marian Anderson · 1960

Martha Graham1 quote

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. — Martha Graham · 1991

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