Popular quotes
page 18

“I don't care that they stole my idea.. I care that they don't have any of their own”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

Kurt Cobain quote: “Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”

“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“They don't really care about us.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

They Don't Care About Us
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

“There is no death without life. Therefore, death depends entirely on life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Sensitiveness to beauty of the world continues, and efforts to preserve it were also made in the past.”

Marek Żukow-Karczewski (1961) Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist

Enchanted by beauty (three forgotten relations), "Aura" 1, 1998-01, p. 17-19. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-article-d2f0773c-592e-4250-8f73-558234a9140e?q=3c417fdf-4051-4e84-83b2-9eb4fc33b1e0$1&qt=IN_PAGE

“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

This has often been attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Petrarch. It comes most directly from a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Niccolò Machiavelli, who is also sometimes credited, wrote on the subject in The Prince:
It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
Misattributed

“Anyone from anywhere can do anything.”

Tyler Joseph (1988) American singer-songwriter and record producer

“Just because you read it in a magazine,
Or see it on a TV screen
Don't make it factual.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

Tabloid Junkie
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

“To trust is a profound commitment, and to trust is to make oneself vulnerable... It’s such an optimistic act, because you’re putting your faith in the hands of someone or something which you expect to remain constant, even if the circumstances change.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“An individual who has reached the stage of self-esteem almost always makes a sound and rational decision. He or she always sets a reachable yet challenging goal in his or her endeavour. When the endeavour results in a success, his or her self-concept will increase or widen.”

Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician

Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life

“C4 to your door, no beef no more.”

The Notorious B.I.G. (1972–1997) American rapper

Song lyrics, Ready to Die (1994), "Warning"

“What about sunrise, what about rain?
What about all the things that you said we were to gain?
What about flowering fields, is there a time?
What about all the dreams that you said was yours and mine?”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter

Variant: Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) American jazz singer

“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway”

Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor

Robert Downey Jr. on Inside The Actors Studio, quoting Judd Nelson, 2006-07-09

“Only the weak will fall and give up, the strong falls 100 times and wakes up 200 times”

Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker

“One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.”

Louis Tomlinson (1991) English pop singer

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson

“Nature in fact the best and wisest is an architect and urban planner. (…) The history of establishing gardens and orchards throughout the centuries in Poland is worth knowing, taking into consideration changes in fashions and the foreign influences. Unfortunately, not many objects from those days manifesting the love of nature by man have remained till the present days.”

Marek Żukow-Karczewski (1961) Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist

Gardens and orchards in the old Poland, "Aura" 11, 1987-11, p.17-18. http://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/508860

Anne Frank quote: “I think a lot, but I don't say much.”

“I think a lot, but I don't say much.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl