FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Loving a person isn't a magical, sparkly passion. It's hard work. It's putting the other person before yourself. It's companionship and being able to trust and depend on each other. ... (K.M. Shea)

You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent ... (Grace Slick)

Friends and family came and went, sometimes helping her with her tears, other times making her laugh. But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to ... (Cecelia Ahern)

I'm kind of sad and happy all the time. Just kind of like feeling, you know, full of life and confident, and at the same time terrified. I'm all of ... (Billy Bob Thornton)

Turned her head away from the other woman to avoid showing her smile. "If people were sensible, the wedding venue would never be rented out, which means we'd be homeless ... (Penelope Sotheby)

More and more, for the stupid little kid, that was the idea . . . That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again. That ... (Chuck Palahniuk)

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government as a biased protagonist, armed ... (Strom Thurmond)

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head. ... (Gwendolyn Brooks)

Alessandro watched as Luke burrowed his nose in the snow and then shook his small body. "Well, that depends on whether you want a male or a female horse." "Mmm. ... (E. Jamie)

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society. ... (Pope Francis)

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any ... (Holly Black)

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas.. you can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere ... ... (Michael J Herbert)

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in ... (Rumi)

The purpose of American culture is to create a norm, Morris. That means extraordinary people must be leveled, and it happens to Jimmy. He ends up working in advertising, for ... (Stephen King)

I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness. ... (Dee Dee Ramone)

A typical submissive lives to serve. She likely grew up believing that service to the people you care for is how you express your love for them. It had little ... (Michael Makai)

Allah, Most High, has truly blessed us. He has created just for us the mysterious spirit that He has breathed into us and by so doing distinguished us from all ... (Imam Zaid Shakir)

Give me faith to step aside and let You work, especially in those times when I desire to influence, to persuade, to make my opinion known. Help me to be ... (Shelly Beach)

Thomas Jefferson had rather serious concerns about the fate of the democratic experiment.28 He feared the rise of a new form of absolutism that was more ominous than the British ... (Noam Chomsky)

Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. ... (Umberto Eco)

I never thought I should like to wash dishes, but I do, said Rose, as she sat in a boat after supper lazily rinsing plates in the sea, and rocking ... (Louisa May Alcott)

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return. ... (Simon Sinek)

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

A new thought happens and a new plant springs up. A feeling fades away and the plant dies. Some of the more common ones are always in bloom - fear, ... (Lev Grossman)

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force. ... (Anthony de Jasay)

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. ... (Bodhidharma)

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together. ... (Robert Green Ingersoll)

She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him. ... (Donna Leon)

But the greatest battle of all is with yourself - your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war ... (Robert Greene)

We can only climb the mountains because there's a valley that makes the mountain a mountain. ... (Craig D. Lounsbrough)