FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The sun is the sacred morning light. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and ... (Edward Kennedy)

God longs to listen to our sad songs. He wants to hear our hearts cry out to him, even when we don't understand his plan or are missing the lessons ... (Rachel Wojo)

He didn't have enough imagination to be a mathematician, but now he's a poet and he's doing fine. ... (Robert Eastaway)

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of ... (Jane Pauley)

You stackin cheddar cause you working at the burger place. ... (Inspectah Deck)

I'm Chip Martin," he announced in a deep voice, the voice of a radio deejay. Before I could respond, he added, "I'd shake your hand, but I think you should ... (John Green)

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss. ... (Al Neuharth)

It was a farewell. Not a good-bye, but a fare ... well. and he had the sense they would. ... (J.R. Ward)

He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of ... (Lucas Malet)

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone ... (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia ... (Paul Di Filippo)

You can't break apart love's properties and make it something it's not. I knew that now. A ... (Mariana Zapata)

War did not come like a hurricane, Rorimer realized, destroying everything in its path. It came like a tornado, touching down in patches, taking with it one life while leaving ... (Robert M. Edsel)

Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit ... (David Nicholls)

Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance. ... (Frederick Rolfe)

Being drunk is the only situation when English people completely avoid health and safety rules. ... (Angela Kiss)

The big house ... reminded me of the types of structures you can still see in places like Center City: gingerbread houses, two-story affairs built back in the nineteenth century ... (Gary Reilly)

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. ... (Theodore Roosevelt)

Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a ... (Mark Sanchez)

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money. ... (Pauly Shore)

There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other ... (E. T. Whittaker)

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, ... (Ruth Glick)

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me. ... (Aretha Franklin)

But I'm confident that my work - and the work of my staff - with our many young players over the last two years will begin to pay off for ... (Kurt Rambis)

Many Sufis are not guides. ... (Idries Shah)

There in the highlands, clear weather held for much of the time. The air lacked its usual haze, and the view stretched on and on across rows of blue mountains, ... (Charles Frazier)

To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state ... (Carrie Chapman Catt)

Then I will eat you alive. ... (Patrick Ness)

Standing amid the tan, excited post-Christmas crowd at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Rabbit Angstrom has a funny sudden feeling that what he has come to meet, what's floating in ... (John Updike)