All Sayings

238 sayings found from the Modern era

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.

— Agatha Christie 1942
Strange & Unusual

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1902
Strange & Unusual

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

— Alexandre Dumas 1844
Strange & Unusual

I believe the children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

— Richard Pryor 1979
Strange & Unusual

The only honest art form is confession.

— Lenny Bruce 1965
Strange & Unusual

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

— Neil Armstrong 1969
Strange & Unusual

I don't see any God up here.

— Yuri Gagarin 1961
Strange & Unusual

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

— Amelia Earhart 1935
Strange & Unusual

It is not the material things that are most important in life, but the spiritual.

— Charles Lindbergh 1953
Strange & Unusual

I can't retire. What would I do? Sit around and watch my toenails grow?

— Ray Charles 2003
Strange & Unusual

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'

— Grace Hopper 1976
Humorous

The two great narcotics of Europe, alcohol and Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche 1889
Controversial

The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

— Karl Marx 1848
Controversial

I believe in anything necessary to correct unjust conditions, political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

— Malcolm X 1964
Strange & Unusual

If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?

— John von Neumann 1950
Controversial

I'm not a science fiction writer. I've only written one science fiction book in my life, and that's 'Fahrenheit 451.' All the others are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury 2001
Controversial

Not all those who wander are lost.

— J.R.R. Tolkien 1954
Controversial

Suffering is a great gift from God. It is a sign that you have come so close to Him.

— Mother Teresa Approx. 1970s-1980s
Controversial