FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Is, in the words of The Westminster Shorter Catechism, "any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God" (Q. 14).6 Sin is mutiny, either by its omission ... (Rosaria Champagne Butterfield)

Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is literature that always wins the war. ... (Helon Habila)

The future of my child is unknown but I have loved him, supported him, and taught him right from wrong. I will continue to do so ... ... (Brenda Lochinger)

I'm a good girl. I'm a nice girl. I'm a straight-A, strait-laced, good daughter, good career girl, and I never stole anybody's boyfriend and I never ran out on a ... (Claire Messud)

The Quantified Self movement argues that the self is nothing but mathematical patterns. These patterns are so complex that the human mind has no chance of understanding them. So if ... (Yuval Noah Harari)

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. ... (Leon M. Lederman)

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere. ... (Anna Held)

I was reading a poem by my idol, Wallace Stevens, in which he said, 'The self is a cloister of remembered sounds.' My first response was, Yesss! How did he ... (Rob Sheffield)

Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. ... (John Barrymore)

The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'. ... (Julius Nyerere)

The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus ... (Richard Rohr)

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires. ... (William Arthur Ward)

How to be happy in life? The short and simple answer is to SMILE more often! ... (Al Munoz)

Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer ... It was the worst. That was swimsuit season. ... (Teresa Lo)

Rock 'n' roll music, in the end, is a source of religious and mystical power. Your playing can suck, your singing can be barely viable, but if when you get ... (Bruce Springsteen)

After relating these things concerning John, he makes mention of our Saviour in the same work, in the following words: And there lived at that time Jesus, a wise man, ... (Eusebius)

People always want to use this damn place, they need a room to hold this meeting or that, you'd think a library was a big beehive. Myself, I don't see ... (Ivan Doig)

You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions ... (MaryJanice Davidson)

It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in ... (Jane Garmey)

If I wanted to be a painter, I might think about trying to be like Van Gogh, or if I was an actor, act like Laurence Olivier. If I was ... (Bob Dylan)

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force. ... (Martin Luther)

All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate. ... (Sun Tzu)

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into ... (Alan Patricof)

The truth is never horrible, only interesting. ... (Agatha Christie)

I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens ... (Will Ferrell)

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe. ... (Lars Von Trier)

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us. ... (Rick Warren)

Shoulder again and she was laughing. "You can rot in hell, Dillon." Dillon said, "For God's sake, no," and half-slipped to the floor. "Now don't be silly, old friend, make ... (Jack Higgins)

The real sign of His blessings is if you can have more and more happiness inside. Learn always to be happy; to be happy with the happiness of God. Even- ... (Goswami Kriyananda)

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment. ... (Napoleon Hill)