Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

View Author

Only live once, and I don't want to wait for that universal happiness. Above all, I want to live. If I didn't feel this desire, it would be better not to have a life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

View Author

Sometimes it happens to us that people we don't know inspire a sudden interest in us when we see them for the first time, even before exchanging a word with them.

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas

View Author

If I were offered to film my life in a movie, I would reject it.

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

View Author

When you learn to read, you will be free forever.

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

View Author

No one can put a chain around the ankle of his neighbor without having the other end around his own neck.

Gustave Droz

Gustave Droz

View Author

Often, some seek happiness as one seeks glasses when they are on their nose.

Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker

View Author

The best structure will not guarantee results or performance. But the wrong structure is a guarantee of failure.

Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker

View Author

Where there is a successful company, someone once made a brave decision.

Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker

View Author

Elephants struggle to adapt, cockroaches survive everything.

Peter Drucker

Peter Drucker

View Author

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

John Dryden

John Dryden

View Author

Madness is a certain pleasure that only the madman knows.

John Dryden

John Dryden

View Author

All the happiness that humanity can achieve lies not in pleasure, but in the relief from pain.