Quotes for January 2248 quotes · 45 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 22: the anniversary does not move.

• A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

  

  Ayn Rand

  WriterAmerican1905 · 20th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 186 reads

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• A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 6 votes · 70 reads

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• Among Physicss, I'm respected I hope.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 66 reads

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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.4 · 49 votes · 147 reads

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• Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 178 reads

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• Give light and people will find their own way.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 12 votes · 194 reads

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• He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 22 votes · 198 reads

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• He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 34 votes · 61 reads

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• I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  3.6 · 9 votes · 46 reads

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• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.7 · 19 votes · 102 reads

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• I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

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  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  American1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 40 votes · 31 reads

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• I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 51 votes · 98 reads

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• I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.4 · 5 votes · 16 reads

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• I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.5 · 18 votes · 41 reads

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• If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.7 · 21 votes · 28 reads

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• In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 93 reads

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• In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 13 reads

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• In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 103 reads

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• It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 95 reads

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• Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 8 reads

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• Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 26 reads

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• Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 72 reads

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• My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 190 reads

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• One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

  

  George Sand

  WriterFrench1804 · 19th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 159 reads

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• Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.7 · 56 votes · 78 reads

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• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.3 · 25 votes · 15 reads

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• Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.5 · 46 votes · 132 reads

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• Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  5.0 · 50 votes · 9 reads

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• Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.6 · 20 votes · 79 reads

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• Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 174 reads

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• Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 6 reads

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• Take up the White Man's burden - send forth the best ye breed - go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 13 reads

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.0 · 23 votes · 66 reads

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• The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  4.4 · 31 votes · 151 reads

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• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.4 · 49 votes · 100 reads

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• The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.7 · 30 votes · 195 reads

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• The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.9 · 50 votes · 109 reads

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• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 165 reads

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• The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.4 · 8 votes · 52 reads

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• The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 75 reads

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• There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.6 · 34 votes · 183 reads

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• To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.5 · 6 votes · 82 reads

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• To die is landing on some distant shore.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 128 reads

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• To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.9 · 22 votes · 112 reads

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• We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 90 reads

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 156 reads

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• Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.1 · 61 votes · 88 reads

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