- Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided Speech"
- Pope Benedict XVI's Resignation Speech
- Barack Obama's State of the Union Address
- Steve Jobs "If today were the last day of my life..."
- Who does Bruce Lee fear?
- Albert Einstein "The most important thing is not to stop thinking."
- Martin Luther King on the ultimate measure of a man
- William Shakespeare "A fool thinks himself to be wise"
- Aristotle's take on anger
- The right film in Woody Allen's eyes
- Lady Thatcher on the difference between man and woman
- Florentijn Hofman talks about the Duck
- Buddha on friends to be feared
- Mother Teresa on smiles
- Dalai Lama on the passing of days
- George Bush on leadership
- David Beckham on criticism
- Angelina Jolie on femininity
- J.K. Rowling on human's knack for choosing the worst
- Jesus Christ on treasure in heaven
- Oscar Wilde“True friends stab you in the front”
- Jane Austen on friendship
- Barack Obama congratulated the royal couple
- Chris Hemsworth's personal heroes
- Charles Darwin on adaptability
- Princess Diana "Whoever is in distress can call on me"
- Benjamin Franklin "Beauty and folly are old companions"
- C.S. Lewis "Hatch, or go bad"
- J.F. Kennedy on knowledge and ignorance
- Henry David Thoreau on the value of a house
- Brad Pitt on family
- Francis Bacon on commanding nature
- William Gladstone on the essence of liberalism
- Zola "I'm coming to live out loud"
- Gandhi on the freedom to err
- Jules Verne on the law of nature
- Samuel Butler on human-animal relationship
- Mark Twain on Ageing
- Winston Churchill on art
- Nelson Mandela's definition of freedom
- Ronald Reagan "Inflation is... as deadly as a hit man"
- Balzac "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"
- Discover a person through play
- Nixon likening Olympics to politics
- Gina McCarthy on fine particle pollution
- Mia Hamm on athletic training
- Henry Adams "Everyone carries his own rule of taste..."
- Alfred Hitchcock thankful to be a coward
- Emerson "You can never say anything but what you are"
- Nile Rodgers thinks he's like a shark?
- Donald Rumsfeld on the "unknown unknowns"
- A rock pile in Saint-Exupery's eyes
- Khalil Gibran is ungrateful to some teachers
- "Dogs are wise." Agatha Christie tells you why
- Karl Marx "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
- Edmund Burke on slavery
- John Lennon "Love is the flower you've got to let grow"
- Malala is not afraid
- Issac Asimov the speed understander
- Aung San Suu Kyi on the democratic process
- George Orwell "Serious sport is war minus the shooting"
- Pele's guitar string/enthusiasm analogy
- Roy Jenkins rethinking the "permissive society"
- Hillary Clinton on dignity
- Carl Jung "The shoe that fits one person pinches another"
- Jimi Hendrix "Power of love vs. Love of power"
- Orlando Bloom's rite of passage
- Robert Kiyosaki on toughness
- Bill Gates reviewing modern pandemic
- Gandhi on the greatness of a nation
- Sean Connery on cultivating an English accent
- Al Gore: Let's get down to reality!
- Chaz Bono "Gender is not between your legs"
- Plato on the reason to speak
- Edward Snowden on terrorism
- What type of girls does Shia LaBeouf like?
- Edmund Burke on the way of reading
- Fred Allen "I sued the college the day I graduated"
- Karen Armstrong on the way to deal with the gritty realities
- Percy Shelley on the veil of death
- James Faust "Cheating is self-deception"
- Sugar Ray Leonard on the idea of contract
- Gilbert Chesterton on Buddhism
- Does a single man of wealth need a wife?
- Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality
- Mother Teresa "Being unloved is the greatest poverty"
- Winston Churchill on the most abhorrent act against democracy
- Who's playing God in documentary?
- What did Alexander the Great fear most?
- Humour is the weapon of unarmed people
- Taylor Swift on fairy tales
- Hamlin Garland's escape from city life
- Elisha Cuthbert"I'm sort of a control freak, but..."
- Polly Toynbee on the clash of civilisations
- Alan Kay's take on AI
- Herb Caen "Eternal conflict may produce eternal truths"
- Roger Ebert"Your intellect may be confused"
- Dr. Seuss "Never too wacky to read to a child"
- Good weather in John Ruskin's opinion
- Buddha "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal"
- Eleanor Roosevelt"A woman is like a tea bag"
- James Hutton's explanations about the globe
- Bruce Barton on the rhythm of living
- Napoleon on public opinion
- Audrey Hepburn "Beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes"
- Eleanor Roosevelt "Most useful gift for a child"
- Lincoln "If you want to test a man's character, give him power"
- Albert Einstein "God does not play dice"
- Gilbert K. Chesterton "A stiff apology is a second insult"
- Doug Larson "Nostalgia is..."
- How to portray the ideal types of beauty?
- Thomas Fuller "In fair weather prepare for foul"
- Gustave Flaubert "Life must be a constant education"
- What did Galileo think about Nature?
- William A. Dembski on the question of legitimacy
- Brooke Foss Westcott on the nature of crisis
- Samuel Ullman "Youth is not a time of life"
- Arthur Erickson's take on tourism
- Pope John Paul II "The great danger for family life lies in..."
- A. C. Benson "A change of self is needed more than a change of scene"
- Erik Erikson on the sense of identity
- H. L. Mencken "It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion"
- Robin Williams on comedy and trauma
- Dorothea Lange "Photography alters life by holding it still"
- Jackie Kennedy "I want to live my life, not record it"
- Margaret Mead on stages of life
- Doug Larson "If green vegetables smelled as good as bacon..."
- Vincent Van Gogh "Knowledge of fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes"
- Saint Augustine "What does love look like? "
- Victor Hugo "Concision, precision, decision"
- 1st Duke of Wellington "Be discreet in all things"
- Stephen Hawking "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster"
- Paul Prudhomme "You don't need a silver fork to eat good food."
- David Lynch on absurdity
- Abu Bakr "Too much knowledge leads to exploitation"
- David Cameron "Flexibility over rigidity"
- Jann Wenner "Clean up after yourself!"
- Salman Rushdie "Dance on"
- Kierkegaard "Life is not a problem to be solved"
- T. S. Eliot "We shall not cease from exploration"
- Jesse Owens "Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust"
- Thich Nhat Hanh on the way to success
- Mahatma Gandhi "Learn as if you were to live forever"
- John D. MacDonald "Integrity is not a conditional word"
- Abraham Lincoln "The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
- Dennis Christopher "Work has been my lover..."
- Goethe on the biggest problem of art
- Somerset Maugham "Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull"
- George Santayana "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
- Virginia Woolf on the first gift to perish in a foreign language
- Indira Gandhi "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist"
- Plato "Let parents bequeath to their children not riches..."
- Montesquieu on tyranny under the shield of law
- Why did Aesop prefer a crust than a banquet?
- What happens when people merely follow their hopes?
- Exercise your mind!
- What is the purpose of education?
- The father of Snoopy "Dread one day at a time"
- Karl Marx "Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex"
Elisha Cuthbert"I'm sort of a control freak, but..."
I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it's good to live a little!
Elisha Cuthbert
加拿大女演員Elisha Cuthbert自認控制慾強，不過她以過來人身分說：支配狂有時也要放開一點啊！
confine 把…局限在，諸多限制
(verb 動詞)
例子：Please confine your use of the telephone to business calls.
請注意電話僅限於辦公用途。
live a little (or a bit) 享受生活的樂趣，盡情地享受生活
例子：I want to live a bit before I settle down.
在安定下來之前我要好好享受一下生活。
例子：If you haven't seen Venice, you haven't lived.
如果你沒到過威尼斯，就等於白活了一場。
live a lie 過著騙人的生活；過著雙面人的生活
例子：She doesn't know you're married? You have to stop living a lie and tell her.
她不知道你結了婚嗎？你不能再騙人了，必須告訴她實情。
