“I like the wind because you can’t buy it.”
Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman
Gianni Agnelli quotes http://hespokestyle.com/mens-style-advice/gianni-agnelli-quotes/ hespokestyle.com
Martin Svoboda
Verified author @quick, member from April 4, 2011
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
As quoted in In factor of the sensitive man, and other essays (1976 edition) by Anais Nin, p.14
Attributed from posthumous publications
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451
Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variant: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d'épouvantable dans le suicide.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128
“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) French phenomenological philosopher
“We don't fit in well 'cause we are just ourselves”
Ed Sheeran (1991) English singer-songwriter and producer
Song Beautiful People
Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book I. Preparation and Departure, Lines 547–549 (tr. R. C. Seaton)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
“There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”
Pelé (1940–2022) Brazilian association football player
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As prime minister, introducing the 4th Amendment to the Constitution Bill, 23 May 1980, which envisaged a tricameral corporate federation. Cited in The Star, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, PW Botha in his own words, p. 27
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Variant: Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.”
George Harrison book I, Me, Mine
Source: I, Me, Mine
“If I win - I win for all our people, if I lose - I lose only myself.”
Vasil Levski (1837–1873) Bulgarian revolutionary
A letter to Panayot Hitov, written in March/April 1868.
Original: (bg) Ако спечеля, печеля за цял народ – ако загубя, губя само мене си.
“Play always as if in the presence of a master.”
Robert Schumann (1810–1856) German composer, aesthete and influential music critic