Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Norman Vincent Peale

Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

Emile Zola

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Ellen DeGeneres

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

Ellen DeGeneres

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

Ellen DeGeneres

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

Epictetus

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Ford

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Henry Ford

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

Henry Ford

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Henry Ford

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Henry Ford

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

Heinrich Heine

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Helena Bonham Carter

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

Johann Sebastian Bach

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

If you doubted your fears instead of doubting your dreams, imagine how much in life you'd accomplish.

Joan Kirner

There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Joan Didion

I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Jim Yong Kim

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Emma Watson

As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

Emma Watson

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

Emma Watson

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

Emma Watson

People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.

Emma Watson

Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it.

Heidi Klum

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

Benjamin Britten

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.