Popular Quotes Through Time

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

Missionary spirit is not only about geographical territories, but about peoples, cultures and individuals, because the "boundaries" of faith do not only cross places and human traditions, but the heart of each man and each woman.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

The Normandy invasion was based on a deep-seated faith in the power of the Air Force in overwhelming numbers to intervene in the land battle ... making it possible for a small force of land troops to invade a continent.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

I figure I've probably got a better chance of coming up with a good Paul McCartney song than Oasis has.

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table. There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.