FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science. ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, ... (Charles Darwin)

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. ... (Alberto Manguel)

Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some things that might help you on the way. ... (Jill Douglas)

How did the muskrat discover our composter in the first place? Chased there by a predator scare, a waft of citrus scent carried to the creek by the evening thermal, ... (Reg Darling)

Come on, let's go meet the guy who thinks he's my better half . And dear God, I apologize ahead of time if he starts talking to you about how ... (J. Lynn)

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray. ... (Saint Francis de Sales)

People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them. ... (Gerald Nicosia)

Well, if a horse refuses, you've phrased your question wrongly. It's the same with women. Don't ask them, 'Shall we go out to dinner?' Ask: 'What can I cook for ... (Nina George)

So if you love me, let me go. And run away before I know. My heart is just too dark to care. I can't destroy what isn't there. Deliver me ... (Slipknot)

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall ... (Thomas Jefferson)

My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson. ... (Pedro Martinez)

We base our ideas about the world on our personal experience, and that experience has ingrained the rate of growth of the recent past in our heads as "the way ... (Tim Urban)

Nigerians don't buy houses because they're old. A renovated two-hundred-year-old mill granary, you know, the kind of thing Europeans like. It doesn't work here at all. But of course it ... (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing. ... (Jenny Lawson)

By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by ... (Michael Richardson)

We owe ourselves our lives. ... (Teju Cole)

Rilke wrote in one of my favourite books [Letters to a Young Poet], "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, ... (Elise Bauman)

Her most unusual assignation was a quick visit with Fred Darsey, a young man recently escaped from Milledgeville State Hospital, where he was committed by his parents during a troubled ... (Brad Gooch)

You're a good man. (Rafael) I guess we'll see in about five years, huh? If I die peacefully, then I'm good. If not, then we'll face each other again as ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male? ... (Carol P. Christ)

All things do help the unhappy man to fall. ... (John Webster)

Nothing is pending in the world ... nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved ... Everything is filled to the brim. ... (Carlos Castaneda)

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant. ... (Ally Carter)

You didn't break my nose," he says."Too bad.""No, that's good," he says. "Because I would've broken yours.""You'd hit a girl?""We fight all the time. ... (Dan Krokos)

And isn't that the tragedy of love, it's utter and complete deceit, that you can only be true in it, that you only wish to reveal your full truth to ... (Omair Ahmad)

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues ... (Anita Roddick)

I think maybe bad things seem worse when people are alone. When they can turn that bad thought over and over in their head, polishing it like a stone, until ... (Shannon Wiersbitzky)

They're really competitive at drama in Texas. ... (Lynn Collins)

Bros before hoes," said Jared. "By which of course I mean gardening tools, because I hold all the fine ladies of Sorry-in-the-Vale in the highest regard. ... (Sarah Rees Brennan)