FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of ... (Rajneesh)

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're ... (John Cage)

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and ... (Sara Paretsky)

You don't give warnings. If someone's close enough that you can't run, and they won't let you get away, you're done. Kick, swing, whatever you have to do." "It sounds ... (C.L.Stone)

A warrior has no confusion in his mind ... This is true emptiness. ... (Miyamoto Musashi)

Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is just [amazing]. I walked away from my audition ... (Carey Mulligan)

Life in New Orleans is all about making the present--this moment, right now--as pleasant as possible. So New Orleanians, by and large, aren't tortured by the frenzy to achieve, acquire, ... (Dan Baum)

What make Gatsby so damn great - like da book's title indicatin' - is dat unlike da rest of deez shallow rich folk, Gatsby actually believe in somethin': love, dawg. ... (Sparky Sweets)

From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is ... (Charles Baudelaire)

A gumble bee is half gum ball, half bumble bee, and it's so chewy it stings. Makes me want to be a better lover and tractor salesman. ... (Jarod Kintz)

Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, ... (Henry Louis Gates)

We lie together under the duvet, arms around each other. It's hard to remember what we used to fight about. The former anger is gone, and with it that edgy, ... (Margaret Atwood)

Hubris is when God screws you over for being a smartass. ... (Raymond L. Atkins)

The mankind doesn't deserv the title "KIND", after all they aren't kind they search ways to destroy you if this is understand as a kind, I don't know where to ... (Deyth Banger)

Don't look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person's soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was ... (Shannon L. Alder)

Harlin needs you," she whispers. "He loves you too much." I smile a little. "I know. But I like that about him. ... (Suzanne Young)

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that ... (Arianna Huffington)

Yadana marveled at her daughter. Mi Mi knew that. She was proud of the strength and grace with which her Little Snail bore her handicap. And Mi Mi wanted to ... (Jan-Philipp Sendker)

It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life around is difficult, but rescuers with commitment and time and a few dollars can ... (Jon Katz)

This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do ... (George W. Bush)

The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said. ... (Tyler Knight)

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence ... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc. ... (Mona Kuhn)

Sister. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. ... (Barbara Alpert)

My wife complained ... (Various)

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment ... (Wangari Maathai)

Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to ... (Andrew Murray)

I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons. ... (M. J. Hyland)

All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day. ... (Bret Michaels)

He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year. ... (John le Carre)

To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we ... (Arun Shourie)