Shows Quotes
10323 Shows quotes by 5868 unique authors
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A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple,…
— Clarice Lispector
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There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I believe I'm just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation.... If you're open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder!
— Oprah Winfrey
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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is…
— Joan Rivers
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We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into…
— Sylvia Earle
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And remember, that is the criterion. If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there is no other…
— Rajneesh
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Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I…
— Cynthia Leive
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You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
— Ayn Rand
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Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.
— Paulo Coelho
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Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.
— Paulo Coelho
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The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been…
— Charles Webster Leadbeater
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Sometimes you get there in spite of the route Losing track of your life and what it's about The road seems to know when to…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what…
— Bruce Lee
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We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth.…
— Ronald Reagan
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Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised…
— Immanuel Kant
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New studies show that 100% of all smokers die.
— Craig Reucassel
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People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy,…
— Rajneesh
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In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays…
— Vladimir Kramnik
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They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at…
— William Hazlitt
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he…
— Dante Alighieri
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My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about…
— John Keats
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In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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