Categories Starting with “S”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

— William Shakespeare

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”

— Mark Twain

“I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”

— Edmund Burke

“I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“One of my agents once said I was one of the most dangerous men in London, and I was so excited by that. For a few days, I walked around Soho snarling.”

— Howard Jacobson

“Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.”

— Jordan Peterson

“One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.”

— Lao Tzu

“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Silence is the virtue of fools.”

— Francis Bacon

“If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”

— Plutarch

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

— Karl Marx

“I am rather inclined to silence.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”

— Albert Einstein

“For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.”

— Cicero

“Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.”

— Hannah Arendt

“I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.”

— Dalai Lama

“The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.”

— Seth Shostak

“One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.”

— Steven Pinker

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.”

— Jane Austen

“I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.'”

— Donald Trump

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

— Oprah Winfrey