Quotes of the day

The best quote of the day

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

LeBron James
The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

Gary Chapman

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

Arlen Specter

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

John Milton

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

Clint Smith

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Georges Braque

Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.

Ryan Reynolds

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Wim Wenders

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Kofi Annan

On my wedding day, I gifted my wife a platinum ring.

Vijender Singh

People don't realize how amazing elephants are.

Prince Harry

Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.

Richard Corliss

My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.

Larry Fitzgerald

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

John Wells

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

Sienna Miller

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

Bernie Sanders

I remember being led to a shed by my father for the unveiling of a beautiful bicycle, equipped with stabilizers, on Christmas Day. I must have been four or five and realized that this was my first ride into independence.

Alexander Gilkes
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Dennis Prager

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

Basmah bint Saud

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

Ferguson Jenkins

What's nice about a lot of Wes Anderson's films is that there's a patience to it. I think that patience brings out a lot more funny things that you would miss otherwise if you just had to make quick cuts and keep the pace, whatever that pace is that bigger budget comedies have to have.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

Daniel Ek

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Imelda May

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

Chuck Schumer

The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs.

Paul Craig Roberts

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Brene Brown

I will always be thankful to Guardiola.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

William Jennings Bryan

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

J. D. Vance

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Henry Miller
Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with

Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is changing, and you're self-conscious and curious about its impact on others all at the same time.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

Serena Williams

Things are not going to change until Indian women, and their parents, stop being afraid of what society will say. This is the single biggest obstacle. The fear of what people will say and how this will shame their parents means that women are paralysed.

Geeta Phogat

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

William J. Clinton

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.

Melanie Martinez

That's how I feel sometimes. I don't want to be around nobody. I just want to be alone.

Rod Wave

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

Mike Tyson

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Thomas Moore

My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

Norm MacDonald

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

Alison Owen

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.

Stanley Druckenmiller

The thing about Louisiana food is that it's really good for about three months, but they only know how to make one thing, and they dip whatever they can find in a bucket of oil.

Joe Burrow

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

George Washington Carver

My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.

John Lithgow

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.

Santiago Calatrava

And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

Trip Hawkins

Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.

Bernie Siegel

Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.

James Gunn

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Romeo LeBlanc

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

Hank Azaria

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

Glenn Greenwald

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.

Marie Kondo

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

John Zorn