FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When I was hungry I fed almost daily on the words of her songs. ... (Jaroslav Seifert)

Everyone has stories of the small coincidence by which their parents met or their grandmother was saved from fire or their grandfather from the grenade, of the choice made by ... (Rebecca Solnit)

In my return to church, I had learned the hard way to avoid assumptions about other people's faith. For one thing, people kept surprising me. If I listened carefully to ... (Margaret D. McGee)

Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ... ... (Stephen Richards)

He doesn't trouble himself with closing the shutter - total darkness, sense deprivation, might activate his thoughts. Better to stare at something and hope to feel his eyelids grow heavy. ... (Ian McEwan)

This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship - replete with ever more rights and responsibilities - would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that ... (Victor Davis Hanson)

Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules of supply and demand. Something not far from ... (Naomi Klein)

So far as we know, the gray-mustached working class approved these executions. So far as we know, from the blazing Komsomols right up to the Party leaders and the legendary ... (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

John felt grounded again. He remembered his favorite Bible story, the one about Peter getting out of the boat and walking on water. The big fisherman was walking along quite ... (Karen Kingsbury)

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to ... (Robert Louis Stevenson)

His fingers gouged into my leg harder. "My sister was in that cafeteria," he said. "She saw her friends die, thanks to you and that puke boyfriend of yours. She ... (Jennifer Brown)

With a dreamy sigh, I prop my chin on my fists. "Who knew that one day I'd be on a date with the lead singer from a famous boy band?" ... (Lexi Ryan)

You give up your dream, you give up. ... (Billy Crystal)

It's all right." "It's not. Nothing's right. I've never done a right thing in my life, it seems." "That makes a pair of us then." Her lips pressed against the ... (Tessa Dare)

All I cared about then was catching a glimpse of Chairman Mao. I turned my eyes quickly away from Liu to the front of the motorcade. I spotted Mao's stalwart ... (Jung Chang)

Her eyes were a rich dark brown that were so deep, they reminded me of my sleepless nights, awake, staring into complete darkness. I felt compelled to look deeper, searching ... (Cristina Martin)

Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer ... (George W. Bush)

You're scared," he said quietly. "Scared?" I scoffed. "Of what?" "Of anything real. And what we have is real. You love me and it terrifies you." "I don't love you," ... (Sophie Jordan)

You're pathetic. You screwed your best friend's boyfriend. Congratulations. You got into a guy's pants. Wonderful achievement for you. Revel in it. It'll last a week. He's going to drop ... (Tijan)

Don't give up on hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when ... (Pittacus Lore)

I love Forever 21. A friend of mine introduced it to me when I was in New York. I was borrowing a dress and said, 'Where's that from?' and she ... (Amber Le Bon)

It's not any easier. We can't choose who we fall in love with. Besides, there's nothing abnormal about two guys being together. Nature made you the way you are and ... (Jay Bell)

Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait ... (African Spir)

By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing ... (Sandra Steingraber)

The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can ... (E. O. Wilson)

When you're unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open ... (Yasmin Ahmad)

Personally, if I had two children, and one was a boy and the other a girl, and if I could afford to educate only one, I would have no hesitation ... (Aga Khan)

By putting "God" and "work" in the same title - in, so to speak, the same breath - Mr. Keeble challenges the modern orthodoxy, which has done its best to ... (Brian Keeble)

Because that's what you do, you keep trying even when you know the effort is in vain. As ... (Lisa Lutz)

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war ... (Aristotle.)