FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who ... (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant ... (Travis Bradberry)

Falling in love is not a spur of the moment thing. There wasn't love at first sight as I always believed there to be. It crept and overpowered me. Once ... (Eveli Acosta)

It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate. ... (Panashe Chigumadzi)

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather ... (Gro Harlem Brundtland)

The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all ... (Lester R. Brown)

I love you, Holder!" I yell after him. "Best friends forever!" He keeps walking forward, but lifts his hand in the air and flips me off. It's almost as cool ... (Colleen Hoover)

I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition. ... (Mark Billingham)

We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its population of sorrowful exiles ... (Mark Twain)

This was going to be the best cup of tea ever, even if it did look piss weak and oily. He took a gentle sip. Motherfuckers. It was coffee. ... (Simon Dunn)

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds. ... (Wes Fesler)

What we've established (in San Diego) with my growing family is hard to re-create. It's hard to up and re-create that. I know that moves are part of life. But ... (Philip Rivers)

I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and ... (Jimmy Carter)

Mika: Sometimes I just feel like you don't want to be like this with me. Letti: Like what with you? You have no idea how much I want to be ... (Shanice Williams)

I would never attach myself to a brand that doesn't represent me. ... (Bryan Greenberg)

My life had been like a painter who climbs up a road overhanging a lake that is hidden from view by a screen of rocks and trees. Through a gap ... (Marcel Proust)

So Captain Jack's come a-courtin'." Her hands stilled on the basket. "Who?" "The tall Shawnee who come by your cabin." The tall one. Lael felt a small surge of triumph ... (Laura Frantz)

All things are possible for me because I believe all things are possible. ... (Joe Vulgamore)

Pull-heavy, right-handed hitters should also have seen shifts, but rarely did. According to BIS's database, the first shift employed against a right-handed hitter in the modern era didn't occur until ... (Travis Sawchik)

Infidels construct their [124] theories from the supposed deductions of sciences, and reject the revealed word of God. They presume to pass sentence upon God's moral government; they despise his ... (Ellen G. White)

Choose food, clothing, and shelter that accords with nature.Rely on your own body for transportation. Allow your work and your recreation to be one and the same. Do exercise that ... (Lao-Tzu)

There were few sounds she enjoyed more than the groans of dying men, but the wind was one of them. ... (Sarah J. Maas)

Yeah, he's taking this little kid home." I let the sarcasm drip. "At least I won't whine like a spoiled brat, unlike you, you bleach-blonde brainless moron. Really, Officer Dan, ... (Apryl Baker)

I'm going to need some kind of incentive program if I'm going to fork out this kind of money." I held back a laugh. "Incentive program, huh? So what's a ... (Darynda Jones)

Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, ... (Ayn Rand)

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which ... (Albert Einstein)

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film. ... (Luke Treadaway)

When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic ... (Salman Rushdie)

Former Sony CEO Amy Pascal - they threw her out of the headquarters, but they gave her a new office on the lot. But she can't move into it because ... (Peter Sagal)

No separation of distance; no separation of time; no separation of any kind need lessen compassion. ... (Zechariah Barrett)