FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

So then, my dear friends, x just as you have always obeyed, y not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation ... (Anonymous)

I couldn't believe it; my deepest darkest fantasy of a cute school girl slowly stripping in front of me was finally unbelievingly coming true! Furthermore, it wasn't just any school ... (Andrew James Pritchard)

To my country, I hope I have done you proud. To my fellow soldiers, I hope I have honored you in my actions. TO my father and mother, thank you ... (Kate McCarthy)

John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in ... (Emma Goldman)

I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life ... (Rachel McAdams)

In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, ... (Brian Tracy)

There just isn't a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There's just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their ... (Hank Stuever)

In telling these stories of our Nation's past, however, let's not be so zealous in correcting liberal historians that we create our own historical revisionism. If the Founding Fathers were ... (Gregg Harris)

Come over here so I can wipe my hands on your shirt," she said, holding up her beer-sticky hands. Eyebrows raised in amusement, Blue did as she asked. He stood ... (Sarah Cross)

In politics, the connection between what you pay for and what you actually get is problematic at best ... This is another way of asserting that your vote in the ... (Lawrence W. Reed)

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of ... (Brandon Sanderson)

In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time. ... (Dave Morris)

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music? ... (Duke Ellington)

Whatcha got there?" Drake asked, nodding to the floor. "Snacks for me." I winked. "Well, now I'm offended." He fake pouted, scooting away from me in his seat, which made ... (Karly Kirkpatrick)

So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow ... (Liane Moriarty)

If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace ... (Vishnudevananda Saraswati)

Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and ... (Andy Behrman)

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better ... (George Alec Effinger)

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. [Address in the Assembly Hall at the ... (John F. Kennedy)

If you wish it. Slightly: If you wish it? Peter: IF YOU WISH IT. ... (J.M. Barrie)

Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having ... (Jake Gyllenhaal)

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices. ... (Cortney S. Warren)

Sorry to disappoint the liberals who tuned in tonight to gloat about Obama's lead in every poll, but I am not worried. McCain may be behind, but the man is ... (Stephen Colbert)

You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot. ... (Angie Sage)

Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well ... (Millard Sheets)

Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to. ... (Jeanette Coron)

But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things. ... (William Wordsworth)

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in ... (John Ruskin)

Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me. In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked me that question. ... (Amy Engel)

...there was no escaping the monsters, not even on this island, no bigger on a map than a grain of sand, protected by mountains of fog and sharp rocks and ... (Ransom Riggs)