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65526 quotes by 19207 authors
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Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been…
— Jean Rhys
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How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!
— Jules Renard
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All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water…
— Shailene Woodley
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I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your…
— Diana Nyad
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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
— Abigail Van Buren
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march…
— Sun Tzu
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,…
— Sun Tzu
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him…
— Sun Tzu
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The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going…
— Sun Tzu
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Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances.…
— Peter Drucker
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I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.
— Bill Maher
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I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.
— Elton John
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My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the…
— Luther Vandross
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People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that…
— Carroll O'Connor
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