FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially ... (Thomas Sowell)

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they ... (Willa Cather)

May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life ... (Elizabeth Lesser)

Serafina was late for dinner because her emotional robots had been having a nervous breakdown. ... (Charlie Jane Anders)

Daniel is asleep. A care assistant, a different one today is swishingaroundthe room with a mop that smells of pine cleaner. Elisabeth wonders what's doing to happen to all the ... (Ali Smith)

The women of the Band were learning that if the Lord of Glory took a towel and knelt on the floor to wash the dusty feet of His disciples, then ... (Elisabeth Elliot)

God is our final say in who and what's negative and who and what's positive in our lives. It is best not to have this so over-simplified as the illusioned ... (Criss Jami)

The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare speeches, the graveside oration, studded in fragments in the memory, was a succession ... (Ian McEwan)

But although the rules are vague And widely disregarded now Some precepts remain: live with love - That is a rule we all can understand; Forgive those who need forgiveness, ... (Alexander McCall Smith)

When a man's trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn't leave him! There is the energy of the absolute Self within and if the knowledge ... (Dada Bhagwan)

The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family, and perhaps one or two good friends gathered ... (Charles Simic)

The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who ... (Joan Didion)

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. ... (Kesha)

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others. ... (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees. ... (Janet M. Tavakoli)

No place better than Indiana on July 4th. Looking forward to a great weekend. ... (Joe)

Lori's biggest quest in life was to find Mr. Right Now, not to be confused with Mr. Right. ... (Lindsay Chamberlin)

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth ... (Carl Jung)

Outdoors, we knew, was the real terror of life. The threat of being outdoors surfaced frequently in those days. Every possibility of excess was curtailed with it. If somebody ate ... (Toni Morrison)

Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention and curiosity. Attention means paying attention..... Curiosity means just that. Endlessly curious. Endlessly asking questions. Endlessly ... (Richard N. Bolles)

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows ... (Charles Spurgeon)

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit. ... (Aldous Huxley)

To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live without understanding is to live without sense or purpose. To live without ... (Belsebuub)

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course. ... (Tacitus)

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I. ... (John Dryden)

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. ... (Milan Kundera)

Her mind made great, panicked leaps between the mundane - He smells pleasantly of soap and witch hazel - and the practical: How could another human being weigh so much? ... (Jenn Bennett)

Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things. ... (Cassandra Clare)

Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships ... (Rick Santorum)

And I know [other] faces aren't this colorful, this vivid, this lived-in, this superbly off-site, this brimming with dark unpredictable music. NOT THAT I EFFING NOTICE ... For the record, ... (Jandy Nelson)