English Quotes

“If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.” Samuel Goldwyn

“The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.” John Lennon

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Anais Nin

“We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams.” Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” Henry B. Adams

“One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face.” John A. Simone Jr.

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” William James

“Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.” Emilio Estevez

“Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers.” Arthur Lotti

“I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.” Richard Feynman

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“The strong man is not the good wrestler; the strong man is only the one who controls himself when he is angry.” The Prophet Mohammad

“I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.” Johnny Depp

“There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“All great art is abstract.” Jean Renoir

“Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.” Victor Hugo

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.” Victor Hugo

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.” Georges Bataille

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“If I have set it down it is because that which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” Sun Tzu

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” Peter F. Drucker

“The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance.” John Ruskin

“A lot of ppl have ideas, but there're few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today” Nolan Bushnell

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.” Victor Hugo

“Bullshitting is lying convincingly and with a winning smile.” Arthur Lotti

“God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.” Albert Einstein

“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.” Aristotle

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” Sir Winston Churchill

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” Mark Twain

“Art is merciless observation, sympathy, imagination, and a sense of detachment that is almost cruelty.” Michael Powell

“If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can’t burn him.” Mark Twain

“We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit.” Robert Shaffer

“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” Robert H. Schuller

“There they go. I must run and catch up with them, beause I am their leader!” Mohandas Gandhi

“You have to have a darkness... for the dawn to come.” Harrison Ford

“If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed.” Anonymous

“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” Victor Hugo

“Easy reading is damned hard writing.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A year in the Internet business is like a dog year, equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life.” Vint Cerf

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.” Thomas Carlyle

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do.” Anonymous

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The perception of beauty is a moral test.” Henry David Thoreau

“Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” Ambrose Bierce

“Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.” Gina Gershon

“Groveling is wrong for the soul, like grappling with whores in a drugstore.” Hunter S. Thompson

“Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed” Anonymous

“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” Sunzi