FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money in the bank and a bigger house? Do you stand for an attractive ... (Gary Zukav)

You're going to obliterate me aren't you? ... (Jandy Nelson)

Walk with an open heart, and you will hear the call. You will see your task shining before you, like a star. ... (Rachel Hartman)

When I see someone not performing, I am frank enough to tell the person that it's not working out. I request him or her to leave or change jobs within ... (Subhash Chandra)

So Dad was cured?" I don't know why I feel so disappointed. I didn't even remember him; he died of cancer when I was one. "He was." A muscle twitches ... (Lauren Oliver)

Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the reason for the celebration. This is true of ... (Spencer W. Kimball)

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading ... (Mitt Romney)

Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea. ... (Holly Black)

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, ... (James Woods)

I had crossed fifty years of my life, and come across uncountable females as son, husband, father, friend in my life. Coming across several women I carefully studied most of ... (Nutan Bajracharya)

I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some friends who had moved out to Chicago and ... (Timothy Simons)

These women lived their lives happily. They had been taught, probably by loving parents, not to exceed the boundaries of their happiness regardless of what they were doing. But therefore ... (Banana Yoshimoto)

If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge. ... (Erin McCarthy)

You once asked me if I wanted a home and a family. I didn't think that I'd ever want one without Yesubai, but seeing you like that in my dream, ... (Colleen Houck)

For the first time since she'd pieced her heart back together, she felt a small tug at one of the strings. She dropped her hands to her sides and took ... (Rachel Gibson)

The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle ... (P. J. O'Rourke)

I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S. ... (Barry Sternlicht)

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild ... ... (Mary Karr)

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely. ... (Caitlin Moran)

The bedlamite little hats in which American women have tried to out-lunatic each other for the past four years prove conclusively we don't dress to please anyone. We're just docile ... (Beatrice Fairfax)

Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct. ... (Edwin J. Delattre)

Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic ... (David Plotz)

Seemingly by design, the American legal system encourages defense counsel to be as mendacious as possible. As Monroe Freedman, a legal ethicist and former dean of Hofstra Law School, has ... (Jon Krakauer)

Casually on the blanket beside me, an offer of solace when ... (Becky Doughty)

My body is a reflection of who I am. ... (Steven Cuoco)

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true. ... (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

Too much comedy is filthy these days. There's nothing they won't say. I like Jimmy Carr, but I don't like the language he uses. I don't understand why he feels ... (Bobby Davro)

In the last few weeks, I had changed. But in my mind, those changes had been for the better. I was finally getting over things, stepping over the careful box ... (Sarah Dessen)

Well done, Mica," Phoenix congratulated him. "You've just earned your baby-jiggling badge. Be sure to unlock all the infant services badges. ... (Ronel van Tonder)

If someone criticizes me, I strike back. ... (Romario)