FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public ... (Gian-Carlo Rota)

As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire, once said, 'Dig in the earth, delve in the soul.' Spin those mower blades, Bill, and walk in the spray of the Fountain of Youth. End ... (Ray Bradbury)

For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in ... (Charles Dickens)

He brushed his thumb across her lips. I guess you're not as easy to forget as we'd hoped. ... (Kelly Creagh)

For me, the present agony of departure, the silent terror of leaving a place known to me if hated, the well-nigh impossible task of conquering the fear that possessed me. ... (Daphne du Maurier)

Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national healthcare program for children, even though it's a ... (Nicholas Kristof)

Sooner or later, we all go through a crucible. I'm guessing your's was that island. Most believe there are two types of people who go into a crucible: the ones ... (Marc Guggenheim)

But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests. We are as much hosts as any Mayflower-descendant ... (Alan Dershowitz)

How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out ... (Don Carpenter)

Feeling lonely? Wish you had a special someone to help fill the void? Reconsider your definition of romance, reconnect to your passions and be swept away. ... (Gina Greenlee)

I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics. ... (John Catsimatidis)

Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his ... (Madeline Miller)

If you ever cry alone again...or even if the day comes where you just find living to be painful...then I promise I'll save you again and again. ... (Takano Ichigo)

Someday Isle is not a dream vacation spot. It is an imaginary destination to which you will never arrive. It is the carrot on the stick perpetually in front of ... (Frank F. Lunn)

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government. ... (John Nance Garner)

On the appearance of Clayton Moore at a Blue Jays home game - It's not very often you get to see the Lone Ranger and Toronto in the same night. ... (Bobby Bragan)

Little in American culture, politics, or business encourages the institutionalization of a collective employee voice. ... (Nelson Lichtenstein)

But in the service when we recite 'They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old', we both cry. For different reasons. I have become swept up ... (Keggie Carew)

Music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own ... (Baroness Orczy)

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its ... (Graham Swift)

I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. ... (Gene Weingarten)

Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later ... (William Braxton Irvine)

She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump ... (Neil Gaiman)

And he came to understand that the burial of the broken wasn't eccentric - this was what people did every day, stuffing their brokenness down, pushing it down, smoothing the ... (Lindsay Hill)

With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another ... (Gary Zukav)

Inclusion and fairness in the workplace ... is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do. ... (Alexis Herman)

Wanted to dream when you went to sleep at night. For at least a month you would live out all your wishes in your dreams. You would have banquets and ... (Alan W. Watts)

I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, ... (Ashlee Simpson)

On any given day, according to UPS, 2 percent of the world's GDP can be found in UPS delivery trucks or package cars. ... (Thomas L. Friedman)