FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The trouble was, Elizabeth thought, they did not tell the children of colonial families not to love these foreign lands, not to fall in love with their birthplaces. While parents ... (Anne M. Chappel)

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all. ... (Aleksandar Hemon)

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food. ... (Homaro Cantu)

Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you ... (Frank Turner)

Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office ... (Terry Pratchett)

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer ... (Alfred de Musset)

My mother was obviously never there to take the blame she deserved. She left me to absorb it all in her place. She was far too busy in her own ... (Ashly Lorenzana)

What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own ... (Syama Prasad Mukherjee)

I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone ... (Rita Wilson)

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills ... (William Faulkner)

I learned that love can end in one night, that great friends can become great strangers, that strangers can become best friends, that we never finish to know and understand ... (Tommy Tran)

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need ... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED ... (Terry Pratchett)

It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island. ... (Sherwood Schwartz)

And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, ... (J.K. Rowling)

I know this sounds weird, but getting hurt was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It really gave me a different perspective. Before, everything was going ... (Megan Rapinoe)

I need grit and struggle and Los Angeles is terribly nice, but people, once they get there, cease to be real. Constant and repetitive fulfillment is not good for the ... (Morrissey)

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world. ... (Henri Frederic Amiel)

My friend Wicker once said to be careful what and how you say what you're really thinking to a woman. After much screwing up in that department with Emma, I've ... (Cyndi Goodgame)

I think I am at that stage of Life now where Success or Failure, nothing Bothers me. If I get little success then I get lots of rejections and failures ... (Shivam Singh)

I believe in Jesus Christ. He said deny me in front of your friends & I will deny you in front of my father. ... (Werley Nortreus)

Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what ... (Eugene H. Peterson)

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's ... (George Eliot)

If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer. ... (Laura Miller)

She saw the beginning of puzzlement cross his face, and then there was an explosion and the door of the room blew open in a shower of splinters. Magnus strode ... (Cassandra Clare)

In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain. ... (Rick Yancey)

If you're a songwriter, it's to perform your songs. For singers, it's just to get to sing somewhere. So while there may be a reluctance with all the things that ... (Donnie Fritts)

Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could ... (Timothy Keller)

Modeling is more fun in the Philippines ... (Sophie Sumner)

I have been running so sweaty my whole life Urgent for a finish line And I have been missing the rapture this whole time Of being forever incomplete ... (Alanis Morissette)

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect. ... (John F. Kennedy)