FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The human mind is a product of the Pleistocene age, shaped by wildness that has all but disappeared. If we complete the destruction of nature, we will have succeeded in ... (Edward O. Wilson)

I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure. ... (Neelie Kroes)

Consistent participation in the act and spirit of Early Morning Prayer will eradicate from your life the things that create the majority of all spiritual inconsistencies. Almost all of the ... (Tony Bailey)

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a love for the lost? This is a term we use as part of our Christian jargon. Many believers search ... (John Piper)

One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of ... (G.I. Gurdjieff)

It's a very small object to be capable of doing many wonderful things, don't you think?" "It does much more that that," Valkyrie said, opening up a game and showing ... (Derek Landy)

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down. ... (Janice Dickinson)

That's not what he meant," Rachel says again, pink flushing her cheeks. "Actually, I meant-" I start to say, but Willow cuts me off. "What? It's true. He looks at ... (C.J. Redwine)

So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of ... (R. K. Laxman)

The learned man who does not act up to his knowledge is like a patient who describes the qualities of a medicine without using it or like a hungry man ... (Abu Hamid al-Ghazali)

On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a ... (Jim Rash)

Mark laughed. "You are one strange little man." Alec stopped and faced him. "That's what my mama used to say. She'd wake me up in the morning, give me a ... (James Dashner)

I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson ... (Stevie Nicks)

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost. ... (Mark McKinnon)

In addition to being flat-out hard to do, building effectiveness into an organization often comes into direct conflict with increasing efficiency. This is an unfortunate side effect of optimization, first ... (Tom DeMarco)

Not that my watching out was likely to do a lot of good, I thought; every second man on the dock looked like an assassin to me. ... (Diana Gabaldon)

The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. The stories that give us our names, our identities, the ... (Jonathan Stroud)

There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. ... (Woody Allen)

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ... (Augustine Birrell)

Pomposity and indignation grow in old age, like nostril hairs and earlobes. ... (Stephen Fry)

Those who romanticize war often like to think of it, at least in areas of mortal peril, as nothing but "guts and glory." Those who are inclined to pacifism, by ... (Boria Sax)

Don't swill my best cognac. You must savour each drop." "Savour like you do a man". ... (Astrid Cooper)

Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole ... The ... (Parker J. Palmer)

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers. ... (Mallory Ortberg)

And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU will gradually be replaced by ... (George Saunders)

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe. ... (Esi Edugyan)

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people? ... (Rush Limbaugh)

I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots. ... (Dov Davidoff)

Some things a girl has in her to say no to and some things cut her down before she knows she's gone. Sure, some twiggy, thorny snap in her says: ... (Catherynne M Valente)

Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save ... (Pseudonymous Bosch)