FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Before entering into any kind of intimate relationships, whether friendship, familial re-connection, or romance, the idea of "needing" or "being needed" must be eliminated. It's harmful to me and others. ... (Jennifer DeLucy)

How far they came to perish here, these soldiers and these machines! What bizarre train of events brought youngsters from the Rhineland and Prussia, from the Scottish Highlands and London, ... (Herman Wouk)

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit ... (Jamie Oliver)

Correct." Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. "My people were the original Athenians the gemini." "Like your zodiac sign?" Percy asked. "I'm a Leo." "No, stupid. "I'm a ... (Rick Riordan)

If we are only interested in changing the AS person so that they can better meld themselves into society - a tenuous and nebulous concept to begin with - then ... (Liane Holliday Willey)

I'm pretty sure that when babies are born in Oregon, they leave the hospital with birth certificates - and teeny-tiny sleeping bags. Everyone in the state camps. The hippies and ... (Gayle Forman)

Don't tell stories of a job you almost got. Learn from a loss and don't dwell on it. Move on.' ... (Lauren Graham)

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily ... (Stephen Covey)

Never give anyone permission to hurt your feelings. Always face them by standing up for what is right and you will feel strong. If you do not stand strong, people ... (John J. Siefring)

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula. ... (Jim Rohn)

The claim of fine tuning is subjective. As I stated before, no measurement in physics is perfect. The amount of precision we demand can be increased or decreased at our ... (G.M. Jackson)

What ideals, when followed, will bring to you those blessings you so much seek, even a quiet conscience, a peace-filled heart, a loving family, a contented home? May I suggest ... (Thomas S. Monson)

I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still ... (Michael Lewis)

Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question ... (David LaMotte)

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable. ... (Mary Wortley Montagu)

Well the thinking is we have the highest tax rate in the world. In the entire world, we have the highest tax rate. There's gridlock in Washington because there's no ... (Donald Trump)

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. ... (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had. ... (Barry Unsworth)

At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and ... (C.A.R. Hoare)

People who go to the Opera, they don't go to the toilet, not even at home. ... (Martin Amis)

Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we ... (Ralph Nader)

What is true is that if the opening statements by defense and prosecution give an accurate image of the evidence that will be presented at trial, then it is only ... (Clay S. Conrad)

I would think it odd, he said, that he had never married. I did not, in fact, think it at all odd the statistical chances against any woman being prepared ... (Sarah Caudwell)

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier. ... (Pierce Brosnan)

It only belongs to me when I let go Petra Hermans ... (Petra Hermans)

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities. ... (Clive Barker)

Hunter's father had a passion for single malt Scotch whisky. A passion that, frankly, Hunter had never understood. He found whisky, any type of whisky, way too overwhelming for his ... (Chris Carter)

When we penetrate the smokescreen of controversies regarding false accusations, 'recovered memories', 'recanters', references to 'satanic ritual abuse' and the incorporation of elements of cultural myths into some accounts, we ... (Warwick Middleton)

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, ... (Porochista Khakpour)

What I have always found most comforting about these forms is the trace of hope I get as I'm filling them out. How they break your life down into such ... (Adam Haslett)