FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day. Maybe that's why I don't believe in ... (Carsen Taite)

A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it ... (Courtney Giardina)

Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness ... (Michel Foucault)

The quality of classroom practice that a child encounters has unmatched potential with respect to influencing student learning and achievement. What teachers are doing in classes with students on a ... (Steven Katz)

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners. ... (Gina Rinehart)

Imagine a world in which people told lies as a matter of principle, where lying was regarded as a good and moral thing to do. In such a world, lying ... (Richard Dawkins)

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not. ... (Dejan Stojanovic)

I need to address my people, and I need to look the part. I will walk out onto the balcony with my head held high, fulfilling the fantasy I'd had ... (Marie Lu)

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and ... (H.L. Mencken)

Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know. ... (Taite Adams)

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows. ... (Jenn Suhr)

I'm not feisty. But when you're as small as I am and female if you don't stand up for your rights, you're sure to be pushed around by big, hairy, ... (Robert A. Heinlein)

Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction. ... (Peter Morville)

One should try to be one's own best friend and to give one's self, in this manner, distinguished company. ... (Henry James)

His eyes, filled with tears and his own blood, are already blind to all things in reality, but the colossal chrysanthemum topped with a purple aurora illuminates the darkness behind ... (Kenzaburo Oe)

If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to those fans and bring the best music, shows ... (Steve Mahoney)

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I ... (Emmy Rossum)

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me ... (Carl Sagan)

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me. ... (Christy Hall)

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to ... (Margaret George)

If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow. If that's its ... (Alberto Caeiro)

I had one too," Daniel said. He was quiet for a minute. "Do you think after Trenton, we could get married and settle down in an apartment in New York ... (Bree Despain)

From time to time you'll see documentaries about low-ranked wolves who somehow rise to the top of the pack - an omega that earns a position as an alpha. Frankly, ... (Jodi Picoult)

Seeing the world that, as a child, he had once thought so unimaginably vast, nearly limitless in size, reduced to a tiny ball, floating there, swallowed by the immensity of ... (A.G. Riddle)

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life. ... (Charles M. Schulz)

One second, we are surrounded by angels holding their swords. The next second, one of their arms drops and his sword thunks to the grass like a lead weight. The ... (Susan Ee)

I'm not some total invalid ... (Nic Sheff)

Tell Khan Drogo that he has given me the wind. ... (George r r martin)

There is no more important homework than reading. Research shows that the highest achieving students are those who devote leisure time to reading, even when the school day and year ... (Nancie Atwell)

In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church ... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the ... (Pope John Paul II)