FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, ... (Sylvia Plath)

Unfortunately, this unexpected, internal condition has often been called "falling in love." This reaction to attraction, which we could also describe as a "chemically induced crush," is actually infatuation. Who ... (Chip Ingram)

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative ... (Ariel Durant)

Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And ... (Dianna Agron)

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch? ... (Hugo Ball)

Some miles to the North, a ring of mountains rose out of the clouds. The peaks were clad in snow and ice, and together they looked like an ancient, jagged ... (Christopher Paolini)

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet ... (James Howard Kunstler)

Only by walking with God can we hope to find the path that leads to life. That is what it means to be a disciple. After all aren't we 'followers ... (John Eldredge)

Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief ... (Epicurus)

Poverty and zeal are an upper and a nether millstone. It is dangerous to make a third in that kind of sandwich. ... (Ambrose Bierce)

When you have any sort of intense emotional reaction, you have a choice: look for proof that you should feel it even deeper or look for the thought process that ... (Vironika Tugaleva)

My take on all these things is pretty simple. It's all on the table, every bit of it, and you should use anything that improves the quality of your wiring ... (Stephen King)

Feeling sorrow is fine, he says. It's right. But you need to use those feelings, channel them into action. Just as you did with your brother. You have such strength, ... (Moira Young)

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have ... (George Orwell)

You see, we were able to give you something, something which even now no one will ever take from you, and we were able to do that principally by sheltering ... (Kazuo Ishiguro)

I need to give you one last bit of advice in the off chance this rather extraordinary and enviable situation in which you find yourself is actually true- that somehow ... (Marisha Pessl)

I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. ... (Milan Kundera)

He started to turn away, but I cupped his cheek. Ignoring the incessant ringing in the room, I looked deep into his eyes. "Whatever happens from here on out, I ... (S.C. Stephens)

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, ... (Ellen DeGeneres)

Do you serve God or do you serve your feelings? Believe the Word of God over and above your feelings. ... (Joyce Meyer)

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. ... (Thomas Hardy)

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do ... (Jules Verne)

The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because ... (Roy Lichtenstein)

He's been looking at my file. So the question has to be right there on the tip of his tongue right about now, waiting to be spoken. But he keeps ... (Cyma Rizwaan Khan)

I remember looking back on a photo of me ... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know ... (Talib Kweli)

Some people go through life and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. ... (Saint Cecilia)

The first rule of caring for a stray vampire: Don't tell anyone you're taking care of a stray vampire. - The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires ... (Molly Harper)

She linked arms with me as we walked down the hall, and every wildlife researcher will tell you that when it comes to survival in a hostile environment, a pack ... (Jodi Picoult)

We are richer in material wealth than those villagers; but their spirit is a nobler spirit than ours. We ... (Kahlil Gibran)

I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell ... (Bernard Goldberg)