Random Quotes

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

David Hume Scottish Philosopher

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Emile Zola French Novelist

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Charles Fillmore American Educator

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkish Politician

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

Tim Finn New Zealander Musician

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

Viktor Yushchenko Ukrainian Statesman

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Winston Churchill English Statesman

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Carrie Fisher American Actress

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Viktor E. Frankl Austrian Psychologist

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

Thomas Menino American Politician

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

Jewel Kilcher American Musician

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

Jennifer Capriati American Athlete

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Virgil Roman Poet

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

Ruth Handler American Businessman

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Russell Banks American Author

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

Stephen Sprouse Designer

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

Morgan Brittany American Actress

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.

Eisaku Sato Japanese Politician

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Alan Perlis American Scientist

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Thomas Sowell American Economist