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“Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.”
Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur
“Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
“I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XII : A Tête-à-tête and a Discovery; Gilbert to Helen
Context: You couldn't have given me less encouragement, or treated me with greater severity than you did! And if you think you have wronged me by giving me your friendship, and occasionally admitting to me to the enjoyment of your company and conversation, when all hopes of close intimacy were vain — as indeed you always gave me to understand — if you think you have wronged me by this, you are mistaken; for such favours, in themselves alone, are not only delightful to my heart, but purifying, exalting, ennobling to my soul; and I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.”
Marian Wright Edelman (1939) American children's rights activist
“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.”
Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam.
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
His famous response to his judges upon his conviction as a heretic, prior to his transfer to the civil authorities for execution. (16 February 1600); as quoted by Gaspar Schopp of Breslau in a letter to Conrad Rittershausen; as translated in Giordano Bruno : His Life and Thought (1950) by Dorothea Waley Singer http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/bruno00.htm <br class="br">Variant translations:<br>Perhaps your fear in passing judgment on me is greater than mine in receiving it.<br>It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.<br>You pronounce sentence upon me with greater fear than I receive it.
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 46
“One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.”
Dave Pelzer (1960) American author
Source: A Child Called "It"
“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
