FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The fear of not measuring up robs us of seeing the value in our influence, and it keeps us on a perpetual quest to be better than others. ... (Jenni Catron)

Somewhere a million miles away, the girl I once loved was going down her road, and I was stuck back on mine. ... (Jennifer Flackett)

I've been ripped off, conned, lied to and cheated... but I'm still here. Cheaters never prosper. If stealing from you is the only way for them to get ahead - ... (Lisa Newton)

There is no bigger illusion in the world than the idea that a woman will bring dishonor into a home if she tries to keep her heart and her body ... (Rupi Kaur)

You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know ... (Steve Carell)

Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they ... (Alan Loy McGinnis)

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed. ... (John Krasinski)

Many rulers would have spent the morning complaining loudly about the cold and the discomfort, as if their complaints would actually serve to alleviate the situation and as if their ... (John Flanagan)

Tom Cruise isn't that big of a guy," my mom always says. I love how she tries to avoid using the word "short." Yeah," I tell her in return, "but ... (Ann Edwards Cannon)

It seems everyone is converging on a simple set of facts: Our lives are digital, and we wish to share our lives. Pinterest came at it through images, artfully curated. ... (John Battelle)

Evolutionary dynamics has no need of vast abstract spaces, like all the possible viable animals, DNA sequences, sets of proteins, or biological laws. Better, as the theoretical biologist Stuart A. ... (Anonymous)

Be a lawyer, a doctor or a teacher", they say. But there's one thing they can't hear: the silent beat of creativity within you - that calling beckoning you to ... (Connor Franta)

I thought of kissing Astrid under the fire escape. I thought of Norm's rusty microbus and of his father, Cicero, sitting on the busted-down sofa in his old trailer, rolling ... (Stephen King)

We travel just to travel. ... (Che Guevara)

I was having trouble making sense of all that Rosie was saying, doubtless due to the effects of the alcohol and her perfume. However, she had given me an opportunity ... (Graeme Simsion)

Extremes of feeling are allied to madness; ... (Virginia Woolf)

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal. ... (Bonnie Jo Campbell)

In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ... (Kay Warren)

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song. ... (Brian Harvey)

Stay focused; leave everything and do something ... (Ernest Agyemang Yeboah)

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance. ... (Walter Brueggemann)

In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I ... (Rick Moody)

What has first drawn him to Max was the man's unyielding character, not whether he was real-life boyfriend material. ... (K.A. Merikan)

It made a good daydream, but I've learned that if you want dreams to come true, you have to take action. ... (Peg Kehret)

Blood for life. Life for life. Changeling justice. ... (Nalini Singh)

She wanted his strong, capable hands on her blody and those soft lips locked with hers. She wanted to be held tight and kissed until she could forget-if only for ... (Melissa Cutler)

Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style ... Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes edge and style ... (Michael Mauboussin)

There are many experts on how things have been done up to now. If you think something could use a little improvement, you are the expert. ... (Robert Breault)

There is no fickleness about Jesus: those whom He loves, He loves to the end. ... (J.C. Ryle)

The men she had known at university, with their practised uncouthness, their masculine argumentation, the way they assumed ownership of the women they lassoed into their grasp. She had endured ... (Gail Jones)