Categories Starting with “S”

“A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

— Bernard Shaw

“Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?”

— Carl Jung

“A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”

— Alan Watts

“There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.”

— Nelson Mandela

“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”

— Horace

“To be honest, I hate silence.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

— William Shakespeare

“Better a broken promise than none at all.”

— Mark Twain

“I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.”

— Donald Trump

“You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.”

— Muhammad Ali

“What is a society without a heroic dimension?”

— Jean Baudrillard

“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”

— Douglas Coupland

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

— Albert Einstein

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

— Jane Austen

“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”

— Cicero

“If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.”

— Richard Dawkins

“I don't think about who the audience is for my books.”

— J. K. Rowling

“Life loves the liver of it.”

— Maya Angelou

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

— Thomas Paine

“Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.”

— Bill Gates