Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by American Authors - Page 6

Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

If you're not out living, then you've got nothing to talk about.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

Isolationism is not leadership.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.

I'm always trying to calculate the mathematical probability of certain outcomes.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

You can't legislate against stupidity.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

It's very, very humbling, and I couldn't be more honored to have the opportunity to run with, and serve with, the next president of the United States.

You can't legislate good taste.

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

Keep doing what you have to do to help the team out.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Risk more than others think safe.

It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

I did make National Honors Society in high school.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.

I don't apologize for supporting Trump. He said all the right things, and nobody else would even say it. I suppose it's possible that another politician who really meant it would come along. There's Kris Kobach, Tom Cotton, Jeff Sessions... there are probably a handful of politicians.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.