FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children and philosophers busy is asking ... (Thomas Cathcart)

I used to feel like this all the time and it didn't bother me, but it's different now. ( ... ) ... and besides, I want to test them. I ... (Dawn O'Porter)

The entire affective world, constructed over the years with utmost difficulty, collapses with a kick in the father's genitals, a smack on the mother's face, an obscene insult to the ... (Jacobo Timerman)

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry. {Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a ... (Adolf von Baeyer)

Love you," Xavier said just before he drifted back to sleep. "Love you more," I said playfully. "Not a chance," Xavier said, fully awake now. "I'm bigger, I can contain ... (Alexandra Adornetto)

It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place - they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, ... (Veronica Roth)

Love was the greatest of enchantments; if Echidna and her children succeeded in killing Kypris, Thelxiepeia would no doubt, would doubtless ... Become the goddess of love in a century ... (Gene Wolfe)

Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at. ... (Tegan Quin)

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar. ... (Luis Suarez)

I hand over a lot of things when I'm home. Mom tells me she doesn't like my shirt I want to buy, and I hand it over. Not the shirt ... (Gin Phillips)

Everything's bad until it's good. If this is what you really want, then you just have to hang in there until you get to the good times. ... (Mary Jane Clark)

There are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love ... (Bernard of Clairvaux)

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can ... (Sue Monk Kidd)

Minor segments of earlier history may have been rescued or 'retrieved' -- e.g. Greek 'democracy,' Aristotle, the Magna Carta, etc. -- but these remain subservient, if not instrumental, to the ... (Wael B. Hallaq)

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous. ... (Demi Moore)

There is no sharp boundary line separating the reactions of the immune bodies from chemical processes between crystalloids, just as in nature there exists every stage between crystalloid and colloid. ... (Karl Landsteiner)

You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and ... (Arthur L. Herman)

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors. ... (Zac Posen)

There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as ... (Rick Atkinson)

Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness ... (Hermann Hesse)

The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct ... (Bob Shacochis)

Anybody body can be a Church goer, but there is a difference of "GOD" being in them then they being in the WORLD. ... (Henry Johnson Jr)

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to ... (Og Mandino)

There are no more worlds to conquer! ... (Alexander the Great)

A free-standing arch of rough-hewn stones and no mortar can be a stable structure, but it is irreducibly complex: it collapses if any one stone is removed. How, then, was ... (Richard Dawkins)

I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity. ... (Neal Shusterman)

And then . . . we're going to get in my car." I waited for him to elaborate on a destination. "And?" He gently kissed the nape of my neck. ... (Richelle Mead)

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, ... (Helen Keller)

'Never give in' was my mindset. ... (Arlen Specter)