FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Often we are tempted to think that loving someone - a spouse, a boyfriend or girlfriend, or even just a friend - means clinging to them, which is a subtle ... (James Martin)

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for. ... (Mandy Hale)

There were, in Clochemerle, a number of lady 'invalids', their conversation one long jeremiad concerning their health, who had worn out their husbands and outlived them by fifteen or twenty ... (Gabriel Chevallier)

How does that put me in danger?" Nick asks. It's the first question he's asked the entire time. Devyn, however, has been Mr. Nonstop Wondering Question Guy. "Because . . ... (Carrie Jones)

It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hours in the precinct jail. It was a clear bright day, but there ... (William S. Burroughs)

I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you describe. This must be owing ... (Thomas Jefferson)

Taped to her wall, where someone else might hang a crucifix, is a page torn from Rolling Stone: Prince in a misty lavender paradise. ... (Jardine Libaire)

Sometimes, what people choose to write down on paper is more important than what they say. Caleb didn't know what Sarah meant. But I knew. I wrote in my journal ... (Patricia MacLachlan)

We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We can ... (Markus Zusak)

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely ... (Baruch Spinoza)

My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy ... (Marilyn Dumont)

IT'S NOT RACIST TO BE PROUD OF YOUR COUNTRY!' no, but it is fucking stupid to think it makes you a better man. ... (Andy Carrington)

I know I might look like a ball of fluff," she said, "but I'm not. Not even close. And the fact that I get up each morning and put a ... (Jill Shalvis)

But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, ... (Constance Markievicz)

The new Bournville College is not only a magnificent building and a great landmark but a source of pride for Longbridge and its communities. The College will no doubt help ... (Waqar Azmi)

[D]espite her alternative leanings, it turned out Crystal was not particularly psyco-babbly or airy-fairy or tree-huggy, as one might have expected. In fact, the first thing she did was write ... (Sarah-Kate Lynch)

I think our particular sound has come by just not adhering to any specific sound. For us, it's about the song, and being able to fit in to what is ... (Nate Ruess)

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell ... (Garth Ennis)

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control. ... (Tim Ferriss)

To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're telling. There are actors who have carried me, ... (Clemence Poesy)

Sam could feel his jaw drop open, but it took him a moment to gather himself together enough to shut it. He blinked at Jazz. "Did that cat just talk, ... (Deborah Blake)

Then I'll find another solution. You and I are alrunes, Lil Falcon. You'll never lose me. ... (Ednah Walters)

Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon. ... (Rebecca MacKinnon)

Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity. ... (Cora Sandel)

The Crimson Pirate, The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Black Pirate, Adventures of Don Juan, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sea Hawk, ... (Cary Elwes)

Love must blossom. Through love will grow the trees and the bushes. ... (Joost van den Vondel)

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. ... (Ovid)

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American ... (Rob Portman)

It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living, that life is drudgery, that the ambitions of ... (Hunter S. Thompson)

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things. ... (William Shakespeare)