There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou can’t be in love with a Google search.
Taylor SwiftThe capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. MenckenMen get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott FitzgeraldLove is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.
Lady GagaOne does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George OrwellMy father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.
Anthony HopkinsIt is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Arthur SchopenhauerEven if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.
Greta ThunbergAs unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.
Brene BrownNot always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander PopeNot necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich NietzscheYouth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard ShawTo understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.
Russell M. NelsonWhatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
Abraham LincolnHe that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William ShakespeareOne is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo CoelhoWhen I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
Marilyn MonroeI have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother TeresaSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous HuxleyThere are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich NietzscheI have more friends in New York than Paris.
Karl LagerfeldMarrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Abraham LincolnThe measure of a man is what he does with power.
PlatoThe average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine HepburnI guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.
Clint EastwoodOne who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo MachiavelliThere is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.
PlatoMen show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
AristotleNo one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James BaldwinA man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
Groucho MarxMisfortune shows those who are not really friends.
AristotleI think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.
Michelle ObamaI’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.
Joyce MeyerI’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.
Taylor SwiftWhen you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.
Terry PratchettI’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
Bob DylanPerhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George EliotMedicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon BonaparteMeaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann HessePower is not alluring to pure minds.
Thomas JeffersonI worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
Ariana GrandeAlimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. MenckenI don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob DylanIt is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
VoltaireThey consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Khalil GibranEvery person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerI’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.
Anthony HopkinsMost of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.
Carl SaganPower is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.
Robert GreeneDesign is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
Steve JobsBe nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.
Steven WrightBe generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
Bob DylanIn my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody AllenIn one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.
Adam Sandler