All Sayings

245 sayings found from the Modern era from 245 authors

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

— Agatha Christie 1942
Wisdom

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1902
Wisdom

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

— Alexandre Dumas 1844
Wisdom

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

— Richard Pryor 1979
Inspirational

The only honest art form is confession.

— Lenny Bruce 1965
Art & Creativity

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

— Neil Armstrong 1969
Wisdom

I don't see any God up here.

— Yuri Gagarin 1961
Biblical

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
Wisdom

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

— Charles Lindbergh 1953
Wisdom

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

— Ray Charles 2003
Wisdom

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

— Grace Hopper 1976
Life & Aging

The two great narcotics of Europe, alcohol and Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche 1889
Religious

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

— Karl Marx 1848
General

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

— Malcolm X 1964
Inspirational

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
War & Violence

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
General

Not all those who wander are lost.

— J.R.R. Tolkien 1954
General

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

— Mother Teresa Approx. 1970s-1980s
General

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

— Robert Browning 1855

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

— Erich Fromm 1956
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