FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Everything in physiology follows the rule that too much can be as bad as too little. There are optimal points of allostatic balance. For example, while a moderate amount of ... (Robert M. Sapolsky)

Something about guys showing their soft side always made me feel all sigh-worthy. ... (Linda Kage)

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection. ... (Francoise Sagan)

Yes, I'm Daniel Tahi. I know what your lips taste like.I know you roll your eyes when you think someone is an idiot. I know that you wish you were ... (Lani Wendt Young)

Bilbo and Frodo overcome the objections of the Baggins side of themselves in order to embrace the Quests that await them. Sometimes we have the same struggles as they do. ... (Anne Marie Gazzolo)

On my way up the staircase, I tried to imagine myself coming down this very same staircase tomorrow morning. By then I might be someone else. Did I even like ... (Andre Aciman)

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous. ... (Roger Daltrey)

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better. ... (Stephanie S. Tolan)

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to ... (Dennis Hastert)

Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and ... (Starhawk)

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will ... (Carlo Collodi)

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of ... (Paramahansa Yogananda)

The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there is a defense ... The ... (Franz Stampfl)

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart. ... (Voltaire)

When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I ... (Carine Roitfeld)

Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and go, Shit, I'm grown-up, I don't feel like ... (Hannah Moskowitz)

Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: "Contempt for death." For us as artists, read "failure. ... (Steven Pressfield)

America is polarized and divided beyond repair unless we renew our conviction that the health of our nation comes first. That we concentrate on repairing not only our stressed infrastructure, ... (Hank Bracker)

Koinonia is often translated by the word "fellowship," but that is too thin a word for many of us (especially those with memories of bad potluck dinners in the fellowship ... (Barry D. Jones)

Her time has come," answered Miss Lizzie. "That's why I didn't marry Harvey - long ago when he asked me. I was afraid of 'that'. So afraid." "I don't know," ... (Betty Smith)

On May 19, Malcolm X's birthday, two police had been machine-gunned on Riverside Drive. I felt sorry for their families, sorry for their children, but i was relieved to see ... (Assata Shakur)

We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until ... (Nick Cave)

No, you don't know what it's like When nothing feels all right You don't know what it's like To be like me To be hurt To feel lost To be ... (Simple Plan)

What is 'no'? Either you have asked the wrong question or you have asked the wrong person. Find a way to get the 'yes'. ... (Jeanette Winterson)

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, ... (Gilbert Hernandez)

...always remember one thing, life is and will always be meant to be lived. Taste it, savor it, consume it and let it consume you. Get lost in it. Life ... (Nicole Banks)

A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make ... (Will Estes)

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life as if life could be put off for a time what nonsense! ... (Boris Pasternak)

Wayne claimed to have memorized the names of all of the different possible combinations of Twinborn. Of course, Wayne also claimed to have once stolen a horse that belched in ... (Brandon Sanderson)

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: ... (William Faulkner)