Popular quotes (page 68) | Quotes of famous people

“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Positive

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Coffee

“I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.”

Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer

As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.

Pain , Hate , Love , Personality

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Heart

“OK, number one. There, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching… I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? But, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me. It's a problem for me, I can't control it.”

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

On the lightening of his skin.
Televised Interview with Oprah Winfrey (1993)

People , Problem , Help , Hurt

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“I’m not interested in moralizing… I’m interested in creating tension in the reader.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM

“An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.”

Avicenna (980–1037) medieval Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher

As quoted in Familiar Medical Quotations (1968) by Maurice B. Strauss

Death

“When seeing today the defendants on the dock, don’t believe them to be the old Combat Group Peiper. All my old friends and comrades have gone before! These people who plead for mitigating circumstances are only the negative selection! The real outfit is waiting for me in Valhalla!”

Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS officer

Letter to Willis Everett, July 14, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 32.

People , Waiting

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Birthday , For Wife , love , Cute

“Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

Introduction, p. 1
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Context: Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

Idea , Fish , Water

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“In the face of Donald Trump, the Latin American right chose obedience over dignity.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.

“Peace at, Peace in the World.”

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey

Maxim which became the motto of the Republic of Turkey; quoted in many sources including, Atatürk (1963) by Uluğ İğdemir, p. 200; and Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus (2000) by Svante E. Cornell, p. 287

World , Peace