FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a club. That's equality. If the United States ... (Malcolm X)

The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia, like the immense sadness of ... (Bao Ninh)

The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if ... (Virginia Woolf)

Diamonds are held under tons and tons of pressure, extremely high temperatures of fire and shuffled under shifting of tectonic plates, for a long, long time! Yet when they come ... (C. JoyBell C.)

Smiles and friendly nods are like fabric softeners for the face. ... (Peter Hedges)

I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be ... (Alistair Brownlee)

To all the kids from the "special" reading class back in high school (the one where you tried to form words using wooden blocks) PLEASE stop telling me that I ... (Quentin R. Bufogle)

I think that ties into our name and the meaning behind our name, going Against the Current. We don't really want to fit in to one section. If we're able ... (Chrissy Costanza)

The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, ... (Clint Eastwood)

Losses and other events - whether anticipated or actual - can lead to feelings of shame, humiliation, or despair and may serve as triggering events for suicidal behavior. Triggering events ... (Sue Klebold)

I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're ... (Phil Keoghan)

But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?" Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it. ... (Olaf Stapledon)

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. ... (A. B. Yehoshua)

We're living in a funny time right now, when people build restaurant-grade kitchens in their homes, and if you walk into a specialty cooking store, it seems like you need ... (Shauna Niequist)

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - ... (Andrew Luck)

I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time ... (Maggie Stiefvater)

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and ... (Ryan Hall)

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework. ... (Jennifer Weiner)

I wanted to tell him a story, but I didn't. It's a story about a Jew riding in a streetcar, in Germany during the Third Reich, reading Goebbels' paper, the ... (Milton Sanford Mayer)

America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers - Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left - on the monument to ... (Patrick Mendis)

But he was not her Gabriel. Her Gabriel was dead. Gone. Leaving behind only vestiges of him in the body of a harsh and tortured clone. Gabriel had almost broken ... (Sylvain Reynard)

A forced smile is uglier than a frown. ... (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become ... (Mary Higgins Clark)

If you have people who treat you badly in your life, they will be a human shield against people who will treat you well. If that's not true then we ... (Stefan Molyneux)

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept. ... (Francis Chan)

Peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely: ... (James Joyce)

No outcome is certain, even when it seems so. Fates can change with the swing of a bat, or the flip of a switch, or the closing of a circuit. ... (Neal Shusterman)

I'm just glad you didn't die while we were gone," Brent said. "He'd be so pissed. And you know, you'd be dead. So that would suck. ... (Bree Despain)

Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; ... (Tom Holland)

Valentine," I said, "are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "Absolutely," he said. "If we put little wheels on our feet we could just roll around everywhere. ... (Neil Gaiman)