How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.MothersQuotations by Alice Walker
The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.MotivationQuotations by Ken Gilbert
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.MotivationQuotations by Alexander Pope
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.MotivesQuotations by Sir James M. Barrie
A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.MoviesQuotations by Orson Welles
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.MusicQuotations by Lauren Bacall
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.MusicQuotations by Pat Conroy
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.MusicQuotations by Henry Giles
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don’t know anything.MusicQuotations by John Lennon
You don’t need any brains to listen to music.MusicQuotations by Luciano Pavarotti
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.MusicQuotations by Igor Stravinsky
All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.Mystics and MysticismQuotations by Louis Claude de St. Martin
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.NamesQuotations by Vachel Lindsay
The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.Nationalities and NationalismQuotations by Albert Goldman
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.Nationalities and NationalismQuotations by George Bernard Shaw
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]NationsQuotations by Winston Churchill
The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.NationsQuotations by Stanley Kubrick
I am at two with nature.NatureQuotations by Woody Allen
The environment is everything that isn’t me.NatureQuotations by Albert Einstein
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.NatureQuotations by Horace
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.NatureQuotations by John Ruskin
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.NecessityQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]NecessityQuotations by William Shakespeare
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.NegotiationQuotations by Marvin Gaye
Withdraw yourself from your neighbors house; lest he be tired of you, and hate you.NeighborsQuotations by Bible
My neighbor doesn’t want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.NeighborsQuotations by Irving Layton
No news is good news.NewsQuotations by Ludovic Halevy
Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.NightQuotations by Bryan Waller Proctor
Remembrance of things past.NostalgiaQuotations by William Shakespeare
The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.ObedienceQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.ObesityQuotations by Cyril Connolly
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.ObscurityQuotations by Lionel Trilling
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.ObstaclesQuotations by Havelock Ellis
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.ObstinacyQuotations by W. Somerset Maugham
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.OperaQuotations by W. H. Auden
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.OpinionsQuotations by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he’s a dirty little beast.OpinionsQuotations by W. S. Gilbert
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.OpinionsQuotations by Thomas Mann
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.OpinionsQuotations by Booth Tarkington
A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.OpinionsQuotations by Daniel Webster
