Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar WildeI’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Woody AllenA fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareI’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.
Dan QuayleI don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.
Tom BradyI feel you’re in charge of your own situation.
Conor McGregorThe first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.
Sunil ChhetriI get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.
Beyonce KnowlesThe advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Christopher HitchensMan’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Lao TzuI’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
Kevin HartIt is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma GandhiI am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
Charlie ChaplinIt is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul SartreNo one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
Jordan PetersonI don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.
Virat KohliAll the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. TrumanThe greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da VinciIt’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.
Taylor SwiftFaith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
William ShakespeareWith fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn MonroeScience arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI’m quite a chauvinistic person.
Gordon RamsayMy friends are my estate.
Emily DickinsonOur brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.
Robert KiyosakiAge appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis BaconWe cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry KissingerMen take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.
Napoleon BonaparteWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee WilliamsA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.
David BowieThe devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
Bob MarleyI’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?
EminemThe proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander PopeI had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
Kurt VonnegutMy moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.
Kendrick LamarIf every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.
Angelina JolieThere is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaWhatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven WrightI’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.
Jane GoodallWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar WildeBetween stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
Stephen CoveyI don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
Amy WinehouseNever injure a friend, even in jest.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinYou have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus AureliusPeople are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.
Alice MunroWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
AristotleRemember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.
Hunter S. ThompsonI prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Alice WalkerTo get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
Robert Baden-PowellListening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
Thich Nhat HanhWhy do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J. K. RowlingI don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
Elvis PresleyI have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.
Joe BidenMy weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
Anthony HopkinsIt is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer