FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the ... (Tullian Tchividjian)

Love does not call us to the dance only to deny us chances . There is consistency in this journey. As in the beginning, so shall it be in the ... (Tama J. Kieves)

The illusion of confidence is far more important than actually possessing the feeling. ... (Aprilynne Pike)

America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in ... (B.C. Forbes)

Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had ... (Leo Tolstoy)

I know what it's like when people go away. It's agony for a week, then painful for a week, then you begin to forget, and then it seems as it ... (John Fowles)

That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists. ... (L. M. Boyd)

The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in ... (Joseph P. Bradley)

While it is often said that necessity is the father of invention, it is indeed an irony that some of mankind's greatest technological advancements were born out of the human ... (Yusuf R. Shaik)

A simple job for simple people. ... (Curly Howard)

I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some ... (Olivia Newton-John)

I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece ... (M.F. Moonzajer)

Chimes?" Phyllis asked. "Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you whatever song you most desire to hear?" "No ... (Sarah Rees Brennan)

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)

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a ... (Lawrence Lessig)

Woof," said Billy the Werewolf. ... (Jim Butcher)

When you doubt God's goodness, you hug sins tightly to your bosom, afraid that God will rob you of your crutch, your pastime, your pleasure. ... (Erwin W. Lutzer)

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. ... (Soren Kierkegaard)

Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing. ... (David Henrie)

Idleness is the parent of psychology. ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Tristran tugged and pulled out the stopper of the bottle. He could smell something intoxicating, like honey mixed with wood smoke and cloves. He passed the bottle back to the ... (Neil Gaiman)

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they ... (John Quincy Adams)

Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the ... (J.R.R. Tolkien)

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker". ... (John Hodgman)

Booger looms large in my legend, so I want to get something clear before we go any further: I hated him on sight. ... (Curtis Armstrong)

If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you. ... (L. M. Boyd)

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her ... (Gloria Steinem)

While the classic conversion story involves desperation, hitting bottom, and a plea for help, I think now that it was gratitude, as well as the suffering I'd seen, that made ... (Sara Miles)

To live is to war with trolls. ... (Henrik Ibsen)

She imagined that her mother's soul had passed into this good man and had come to live close by her. ... (Victor Hugo)