FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. ... (Leo Tolstoy)

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing ... (Leo Tolstoy)

The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, ... (George Eliot)

I have to say that I think maybe they did her a favor, and maybe she'll actually get help. Coffee's one thing, but coke is another. It's not something you ... (Jennifer Love Hewitt)

Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 ... (Charlie Munger)

But this is what I'm finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, for that adventure, that ... (Shauna Niequist)

I am not a fan of video games, I had to learn a lot about them. I would love to play video games, but I don't want to go around ... (Anita Sarkeesian)

I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I ... (Tim Tebow)

I think we ought to find something else to do," said Mandy. "But Alecto my love, you're the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw ... (Rebecca McNutt)

I would give my heart to the religious so that they may realize that god hates us all. ... (A.P. Sweet)

The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of ... (Tom Robbins)

I don't mind failing because that means I'm trying. But giving up, now that's something that I'm just not willing to do. I will continue to try and try again. ... (Stephanie Lahart)

The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia, like the immense sadness of ... (Bao Ninh)

If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck. ... (Katherine Schwarzenegger)

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, ... (Michael Denton)

Make no mistake,' He says, 'if you let me, I will make you perfect. The moment you put yourself in My hands, that is what you are in for. Nothing ... (C.S. Lewis)

Unable to resist any longer, I leaned close to Tristan and whispered, "So, exactly how many of the," I glanced around the room, "thirty girls in your class did you ... (Renee Carter)

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a ... (Rosalind Franklin)

Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak ... (Jenny Shipley)

The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine. Reality doesn't offer this assurance, so it's very ... (Richard K. Morgan)

In this book, you will encounter various interesting geometries that have been thought to hold the keys to the universe. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) suggested that "Nature's great book is written ... (Clifford A. Pickover)

I've had boyfriends before, and frankly, each one was a disappointment. There was nothing horribly wrong with these boys. It was my fault. I'm kind of a snob when it ... (Candace Bushnell)

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ... (Abu Bakr)

We'll act as if all this were a bad dream. A bad dream. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself ... (Sylvia Plath)

It was painful but beautiful; a beautiful pain. It was beautiful because I learnt new things ... the hard way. But I think the best way to learn things is ... (Anonymous)

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate. ... (David O. McKay)

You're on Facebook, and these people seem to have endless lives. I don't have time to live my life, let alone tell you what I'm doing, or post a photo. ... (Lewis Black)

Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played ... (Eugene Ormandy)

That, my dear uncultured wolf, is a Charlie Russell - cowboy turned artist. Without him, Montana's history would just be a footnote in a Zane Grey novel. ... (Patricia Briggs)

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the ... (Martin Luther)