All Sayings

238 sayings found from the Modern era

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity.

— Edvard Munch Late 19th - Early 20th Century
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In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

— David Ben-Gurion N/A
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I must tell you that I was never a beautiful woman. But I am a very good cook.

— Golda Meir 1972
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It is our intention to bear the unbearable and endure the unendurable.

— Emperor Hirohito 1945
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Today it is us. Tomorrow it will be you.

— Haile Selassie 1936
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The greatest danger that faces Africa is the danger of Balkanization, the danger of being broken up into small, fragmented states.

— Kwame Nkrumah 1958
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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

— Adolf Hitler 1925
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Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

— Joseph Stalin Unknown
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint, I am a sinner.

— Indira Gandhi Uncertain
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I am Shaka, the unshakeable! I am the king of the heavens!

— Shaka Zulu c. 1820s
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I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

— Walt Disney Unknown, likely mid-to-late career
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A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

— Coco Chanel Unknown
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I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

— Estee Lauder Unknown
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I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!

— Madam C.J. Walker Unknown
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

— Sam Walton Unknown
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I wish to be left in peace. I do not wish to be in contact with the white man, nor do I wish to be disturbed by him.

— Sitting Bull 1883
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I have killed many; I have scalped many. I have captured women and children. I have done all that is bad. But I did it to defend my people.

— Geronimo 1906
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As long as you're green you're growing, as soon as you're ripe you start to rot.

— Ray Kroc Not specified, likely from his autobiography 'Grinding It Out'.
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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1837 (posthumous)
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

— John Stuart Mill 1863
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