All Sayings

245 sayings found from the Modern era from 245 authors

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

— Edvard Munch Late 19th - Early 20th Century
Nature & World

In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

— David Ben-Gurion N/A
Biblical

I must tell you that I was never a beautiful woman. But I am a very good cook.

— Golda Meir 1972
Wisdom

It is our intention to bear the unbearable and endure the unendurable.

— Emperor Hirohito 1945
Wisdom

Today it is us. Tomorrow it will be you.

— Haile Selassie 1936
Wisdom

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

— Kwame Nkrumah 1958
Wisdom

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

— Adolf Hitler 1925
Wisdom

Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.

— Joseph Stalin Unknown
Life & Death

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint, I am a sinner.

— Indira Gandhi Uncertain
Political

I am Shaka, the unshakeable! I am the king of the heavens!

— Shaka Zulu c. 1820s
Biblical

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

— Walt Disney Unknown, likely mid-to-late career
Art & Creativity

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

— Coco Chanel Unknown
Wisdom

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

— Estee Lauder Unknown
Inspirational

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!

— Madam C.J. Walker Unknown
Wisdom

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
Money & Business

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
Wisdom

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
Wisdom

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'.
Art & Creativity

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1837 (posthumous)
Educational

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
Wisdom
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