FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town. A great ... (Truman Capote)

Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap. ... (Auliq Ice)

Let us suppose that such a person began by observing those Christian activities which are, in a sense, directed towards this present world. He would find that this religion had, ... (C.S. Lewis)

To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will ... (Craig D. Lounsbrough)

Yet, when M. Paul sneered at me, I wanted to possess them more fully; his injustice stirred in me ambitious wishes - it imparted a strong stimulus - it gave ... (Charlotte Bronte)

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down. ... (Pythagoras)

Andrew Vachss, the best noir-ey writer in the history of the genre, called cats the lap dancers of the animal world. Give them attention, they're there. Stop, they're outta there. ... (MaryJanice Davidson)

Showed that even with the considerable increase in the average level of education over the course of the twentieth century, earned income inequality did not decrease. Qualification levels shifted upward: ... (Thomas Piketty)

Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what ... (Philip Yancey)

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed ... (William Howard Taft)

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name. ... (George Carlin)

Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you were their girlfriend.' Sara felt vaguely uncomfortable, but ... (Francine Pascal)

O love, fled me - or do telepathies cross sympathetically in the night? ... (Jack Kerouac)

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. ... (Mary Karr)

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you. ... (Karen Salmansohn)

I have a heart!" "No, you don't." "Yes, I do," he says. "Look, I'll prove it to you." He reaches into the tub and wraps his arms around Hector, suds ... (Lauren Barnholdt)

Yes, it is worthwhile to live! yes, I am worthy to live!-life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesting to ourselves once more.-It ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Never a horse that can't be rode and never a rider that can't be throwed. (I'll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, ... (Earle Gray)

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling - that excitement, that fire - to make your dreams ... (Injap Sia)

When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school (doing things you don't want to do, forced ... (Rue Kream)

Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring. ... (Gustave Flaubert)

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing. ... (Ed Harris)

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he ... (Henry Rollins)

Health and happiness are interconnected. ... (Toni Sorenson)

Everyone needs company, some kind of consolation. This is the rough comfort of strangers, the sympathy of touch. ... (Tor Udall)

My school-days! The silent gliding on of my existence - the unseen, unfelt progress of my life - from childhood up to youth! Let me think, as I look back ... (Charles Dickens)

I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it's that pain you're seeing coming out. I put all my emotions, all my feelings, and my body ... (Henry Rollins)

Your real strength within isn't the strength that you experience in your self. Your real strength within is in what you are as a being, deeper than what your self ... (John de Ruiter)

For me, 'Sam & Cat' is cool because it's got this buddy-comedy aspect that 'iCarly' or 'Victorious' didn't have. ... (Jennette McCurdy)

To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how ... (Tony Robbins)