Love & Life Sayings

499 sayings found from 499 authors

The earth is not round as a ball, but pear-shaped.

— Christopher Columbus 1498
Nature & World

The natives of New Holland may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans.

— Captain James Cook 1770
Nature & World

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

— Hernan Cortes 1519
Love & Relationships

I could destroy the Earth, but I don’t because I’m a pacifist.

— Kim Jong-il 2000
Nature & World

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

— Caligula 37-41 AD
Life & Death

When I die, let the earth be consumed by fire.

— Nero 68 AD
Nature & World

I do not want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

— Grigori Perelman 2006
Nature & World

I'm not a man. I'm an animal.

— Conor McGregor 2015
Nature & World

I'd rather be killed by a terrorist than a dentist.

— Tom Waits 1987
Life & Death

I’m the most hated, most talked-about person in the world—and I love it.

— Jake Paul 2020
Love & Relationships

Yo, Japan is wild. Like, you can just walk up and grab a dead body out of the suicide forest. That’s crazy.

— Logan Paul 2017
Nature & World

The whole planet is run by pedophiles.

— Roseanne Barr 2018
Nature & World

All lovers of Democracy cannot help but support whole-heartedly and welcome with enthusiasm the movement to restore your wonderful and historic nation, which has contributed so much to the civilization of the world and which rightfully deserve [sic] …

— Sun Yat-sen April 24, 1920
Love & Relationships

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the firs…

— Philip K. Dick Unknown
Life & Death

My lord, Because of the great pleasure and devotion that I have put into the execution of the two pieces which his Highness has had me make, being the one where the dead body of Christ is laid in the grave and the other one where Christ rises up from…

— Rembrandt 1639
Love & Relationships

If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

— Ray Kroc Circa 1970s-1980s (attributed in various sources, one mentions 1988 Fortune article).
Nature & World

The only method of freeing us from these abstruse questions, is to enquire seriously into the nature of human understanding, and show, from an exact analysis of its powers and capacities, that it is by no means fitted for such remote and abstruse sub…

— David Hume 1748
Nature & World

In overthrowing me, you have cut down in Saint Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots for they are numerous and deep.

— Toussaint Louverture 1802
Nature & World

I wasn't 100 percent sure I would be confirmed by the Senate. But I thought it would be a shame if the best person for the job was not nominated because of fear of what might happen.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2019
Life & Death
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