Popular quotes
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Michael Jackson photo

“I try to do what's right for me,
But no-one sees the way I see,
And then I try to please them so,
But how far can this pleasing go?”

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

Destiny (1977)

Hunter S. Thompson photo
Kurt Cobain photo
Gertrude Stein photo

“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Frank Lloyd Wright photo
Henry Rollins photo

“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

P. W. Botha photo

“We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.”

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

Michel Foucault photo

“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

Source: "The Subject and Power" (1982), p. 785

Jordan Peterson photo

“Like it or not, your existence is grounded in faith.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Other

Ahmad Shah Massoud photo
Johnny Depp photo
Mehmed II photo

“The Christian land, has lost his sword and shields.”

Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan

It is believed that Skanderbeg said on his death
Source: Alphonse de Lamartine (Ottoman History)

Aristotle photo

“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Selena Gomez photo
Robert Downey Jr. photo

“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”

Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor

Source: Biography

Morrissey photo

“It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

from the 1986 song "I Know It's Over"
From songs

Malcolm X photo

“Who taught you to hate yourself?”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist