FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude: Absent a delicate balance--rights and duties, ... (D. A. Carson)

We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers ... (Paulo Coelho)

He saw her right after the seventh-period bell rang. She seemed dressed for the sole purpose of blending in with the lockers, but she stood out, anyway. It didn't matter ... (Francine Pascal)

Weaned from all passing fancies, let my soul praise You, O God, Creator of all. You did not allow my soul to remain attached to corruptible things with the glue ... (Augustine of Hippo)

I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of work I do is pretty diverse: I can ... (Donald Margulies)

At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school. ... (Joyce Banda)

Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you ... (Tamas Vasary)

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. ... (Anne Archer)

The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the ... (Richard Francis Burton)

No, that's not the style of these people,' explained Maxy. 'You shouldn't think of these Bolsheviks as modern politicians. They were religious fanatics. Their Marxism was fanatical; their fervour was ... (Simon Sebag Montefiore)

No matter what, we have to keep moving forward, even if we have to crawl. ... (Kellie Elmore)

It was a flame in the boy, this power he had acquired over the world they moved in. He gave up being contemptuous, since he was the one now who ... (David Malouf)

When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out ... (Greg Camp)

Greg: Scott, great horde. My realization was that I could never *actually* live a life where I had to be constantly doing things like praising a dude's horde. So that ... (Jesse Andrews)

Quitting my day job and starting my life as a writer was a tremendous risk. It was a fool's leap, a shot in the dark. But anything of any value ... (Alan Moore)

Hear you're going to be on crutches for quite a while." "Yes, well - " "Abigail has already said she's moving back home to help you." "Oh," said Madeline. "Oh." ... (Liane Moriarty)

If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet and ... (Anna Quindlen)

Let us resolve to talk more to believers about the Bible when we meet them. Alas, the conversation of Christians, when they do meet, is often sadly unprofitable! How many ... (J.C. Ryle)

*For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed ... (Richard Kadrey)

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same. ... (Shirley Bassey)

I focus on a simple message: when you leave the two-thirds of Americans without college degrees out of your vision of the good life, they notice. And when elites commit ... (Joan C. Williams)

I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo. ... (Hoodie Allen)

Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has ... (Erma Bombeck)

The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life. ... (Malti Bhojwani)

My choices, it seemed, were to be branded a sinner and live my life alone; to abandon my faith, the one thing I held most dear in the entire world; ... (Justin Lee)

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. ... (Jim Henson)

After Bill got his shot, a little color crept into his face and he would become almost coy. It was a gruesome sight. I remember once he told me how ... (William S. Burroughs)

Do you know the reason why poetry and philosophy are nothing but dead-letter nowadays? It is because they have severed themselves from life. In Greece, ideas went hand-in-hand with life; ... (Andre Gide)

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially. ... (Anna Faris)

Life is about going fast and how quick you get there. ... (Robert Ogawa)