FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Everyone contributed to this legend except Phineas. At the outset, with the attempt on Hitler's life, Finny had said, "If someone gave Leper a loaded gun and put it at ... (John Knowles)

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I a tired of being treated like a child. My father says it's because I am a child I am twelve-and-a-half years old but it still isn't ... (Judith Martin)

For me, going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home, because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing, which is to ... (Elizabeth Gilbert)

My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out] ... (David Wishart)

The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus asserted that sin's gravity lay in the idea ... (Ravi Zacharias)

The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so ... (Andrew Weil)

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you ... (Sonja Sohn)

You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you'd made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would ... (Tiffanie DeBartolo)

And I do love you, Delilah. I swear to God I do! ... (Julie Ann Walker)

There ain't no island left for islanders like me. ... (Billy Joel)

Some say their world's will end with fire, some say with ice. From what I've tasted with desire I hold with those who favor fire. My world may not be ... (Genesis)

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind. ... (Rory McIlroy)

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples ... (Alice Hoffman)

Kin, not ancestors. Our main difference from ... (Ronald Wright)

He doesn't have to love your CD collection. He doesn't have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family ... (Greg Behrendt)

All the way back she talked haltingly about herself, and Amory's love waned slowly with the moon. At her door they started from habit to kiss good night, but she ... (F Scott Fitzgerald)

This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea ... ... (Victor Hugo)

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. ... (Euripides)

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast. ... (Samuel Beckett)

Because this isn't the movies, Doc. In the real world, when a seventeen-year-old guy gets a love letter from his best friend, he doesn't suddenly decide to love her back. ... (Aimee L. Salter)

Trust is just another five letter word, one that comes before not, ... (Ellen Hopkins)

What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the ... (Thucydides)

I had grown up in a house with a fence around it, and in this fence was a white smooth wooden gate, two holes bored round and low together so ... (Richard Bach)

We heard the sad news today And had to send this card to say Our thoughts and prayers go out to you There's not lot a lot that we can ... (Margaret Jones)

It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to. It was most ... (Stephanie Ellis)

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace. ... (Tullian Tchividjian)

Sometimes I want to yell on this track; I want to yell the whole song, and I don't think nothing's wrong with that, but the older generation feel like you ... (Slim Jimmy)

The danger of pride I see increasingly how difficult it is to exercise authority in a community. We are so inclined to want authority for the honour, prestige and admiration ... (Jean Vanier)

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848. ... (Jorge Ramos)

To live safely within the realm of possibility is to know nothing other than that which is possible. To live boldly within the realm of God is to experience everything ... (Craig D. Lounsbrough)