FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur'an.Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims.Let them eat and enjoy themselves and ... (Qur'an)

I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for ... (Kofi Annan)

Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today. ... (Bernard Kelvin Clive)

To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the ... (Robin Williams)

My interviews are very pointed. I'm an active participant; I will kindly interrupt people. But I've learned there is nothing people won't tell you if you ask in a compassionate ... (Brandon Stanton)

It's funny, most people think that revenge is a passionate affair, driven by rage and pain. But it can't be. Feelings such as those make you weak. They overwrite thought ... (Carrie Ryan)

Let your heart guide you and you face ruin. ... (Gamon Sakurai)

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your ... (Elijah Wood)

There's lots of sides. The CD doesn't really create a mood. It creates more of a journey. It starts out with a simple bluegrass tune, sort of melancholy and sad, ... (Laura Bell Bundy)

Turn off the device and take your child for a walk through the woods or on a hike up a mountain. Go on a camping trip. Late at night, when ... (Leonard Sax)

It's a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole. ... (Terry Pratchett)

You're joking." "No, actually I'm not," my boss said and slapped the folder into my hands. "You leave tomorrow morning and I don't want to see your hairy ass till ... (Robyn Peterman)

She was special, different. The feelings that twisted in my gut when I looked into her eyes told me all I needed to know. She'd walked straight out of my ... (Aria Cole)

God is not necessarily looking for people with amazing abilities, but He searches for availability and a person who is willing to simply do whatever He asks them to do. ... (Joyce Meyer)

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting ... (Katherine Schwarzenegger)

Don't let people interfere with you. Boot 'em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you ... (Ray Bradbury)

Millions of Nepalese have swelled the armies of cheap mobile labour that drive the global economy, serving in Indian brothels, Thai and Malaysian sweatshops, the mansions of oil sheikhs in ... (Pankaj Mishra)

At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and ... (Franz Beckenbauer)

The reduction of experience to 'a series of pure and unrelated presents' further implies that the 'experience of the present becomes powerfully, overwhelmingly vivid and "material": the world comes before ... (David Harvey)

This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of ... (Jean Hegland)

Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through ... (Ronald Reagan)

Her beauty must have been exhausting and not to mention troublesome. Glitter swiftly made it's way into the vibrant strands that graced her lavish eyelashes. Each blink, each pressing moment, ... (Brandon Villasenor)

He used to tell me stories while we fished. Ones he made up, I guess, I'm not sure. One year, a beaver family dammed the brook and built a lodge. ... (E.W. Storch)

When I'd woken the next morning, I'd done so in a dislocated world of dimmed daylight and diluted colors, a sodden world, feeling like I was a castaway on an ... (Keith Houghton)

He squints at me. "Except for the red hair and freckles, you look okay. You'll be fine and dandy sitting at the table with a napkin on your lap. ... (Christina Baker Kline)

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits ... (Juliet Marillier)

To hell with revenge, to hell with his schemes. If Rollins had done something to Inej, Kaz would paint East Stave with his entrails. ... (Leigh Bardugo)

This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, ... (Toni Morrison)

I had to let her know that the reason she'd never heard of me was because I was famous. ... (Neal Stephenson)

I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no ... (David Rockefeller)