FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when ... (Malcolm Forbes)

Keen at the start, but careless at the end. ... (Tacitus)

It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything." Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum. ... (Neil Gaiman)

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle. ... (Daisaku Ikeda)

The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions. ... (Zilpha Keatley Snyder)

Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. ... (Auguste Escoffier)

Yet most women I know - no matter how clever, no matter how strong - are dragged down by husbands or fathers or titles or too many petticoats, or priests ... (Kelly Gardiner)

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the ... (Saint Augustine)

It's widely assumed that there's a tradeoff between quantity and quality - if you want to do better work, you have to do less of it - but this turns ... (Adam M. Grant)

We must not define Jesus and his kingdom by fitting them within conventional understandings of kings and kingdoms. Rather, we must judge and deconstruct those conventional definitions in light of ... (Brian D. McLaren)

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. ... (David Hume)

Let go of your daughter with grace and you'll find her calling on you with joy. ... (Cheryl Barker)

I understand that you have an urgent task for me." "I do." "What is it?" "I want you to go to the coffee shop and get me something to eat." ... (Judith McNaught)

The second objection is that some of the language is obvious metaphor. David painted the sun as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber or of being summoned by God ... (Brian Godawa)

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason ... (Akbar)

You are beautiful," he said, "But I will have to leave you. ... (Milan Kundera)

The whole world may say there is light and there is rainbow in the sky and the sun is rising, but if my eyes are closed what does it mean ... (Osho)

Appreciating your loved ones," Raphie said, a little embarrassed at first. "Acknowledging all the special people in your life. Concentrating on what's important. ... (Cecelia Ahern)

Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles. ... (Paul Cezanne)

She felt such an intense sensation of happiness it frightened her, because surely there was a price to pay for this sort of bliss. ... (Liane Moriarty)

The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words ... (Rumi)

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears? ... (Jim Fergus)

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold ... (Fred Saberhagen)

I moved away from him, sitting back on my heels and raising my aim to his heart. "Happy anniversary, Frank." In a flash, he had my gun away from me ... (Nicole Castle)

He was reading with his mouth open, and he didn't hear me walk across the porch and sit down on the railing opposite his chair. I kicked his chair with ... (J.D. Salinger)

I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of ... (Max Thieriot)

I love working with people who have had television experience because I think there's a real efficiency and methodology that comes from that background. ... (Eric Bana)

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics. ... (Mark McKinnon)

Giving Back is like chicken and dumplings for the giver's soul ... warm, familiar and filled with rich and nourishing content. ... (Valaida Fullwood)

A husband comes home from satsang and greets his wife, lifts her up and carries her around the house. His wife is surprised and asks, 'Did the Swami ji preach ... (Khushwant Singh)