FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit. ... (Criss Jami)

Hope is a combination of setting goals, having the tenacity and perseverance to pursue them, and believing in our own abilities. ... (Brene Brown)

About the same time I came in contact with another Christian family. At their suggestion I attended the Wesleyan church every Sunday. For these days I also had their standing ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

I read you guys your bedtime story, go to bed!" my sister shouted as she put water into the kettle. "But Mom," a small voice whined. I smirked, ready for ... (Ottilie Weber)

The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally stops increasing because the ... (Brian Cox)

Pain is not a medallion that you must weigh your bosom with, it's a force you must fight against and never, never let it win ... (Jyoti Arora)

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner. ... (Charlie Chaplin)

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for ... (Al Stewart)

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part ... (Isaac D'Israeli)

The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the farmers, and gives us an important ... (Yuval Noah Harari)

Well, that's as clear as mud ... (Tammy Godfrey)

You might be the "little drummer boy," worried that what you have to say isn't worthy. Everyone has something to contribute, especially if you remember to be the real you ... (Chris Brogan)

Literature offers us a different way of seeing things. The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. My own ... (Alister E. McGrath)

Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats ... (Catherynne M Valente)

Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop. ... (Carmen DeSousa)

This next song goes out to the girl who shredded my heart without hesitation back in high school. It's called Ball Busting Bitch, and Laine this one's for you. ... (Michelle A. Valentine)

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ... (Jodi Picoult)

Liars are exhausting people. ... (Walter Kirn)

Why, this hath not a finger's dignity. ... (William Shakespeare)

There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when ... (Abraham Kuyper)

I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and ... (Erri De Luca)

The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person ... But ... (Pope Francis)

Life is like a flowing river. Just like the speed of time, it will never come back. ... (Debasish Mridha)

A chicken doesn't fly like other birds, but it is still a bird. ... (Jessica Khoury)

Dead towns are the Cathedrals of Silence. They, too, have their gargoyles, singular figures, exaggerated, dubious, set in high profile. They stand out from the mass of grey, which takes ... (Georges Rodenbach)

Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn. ... (Scott Anderson)

Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously. ... (Mark Pesce)

If your life can hang from a chewing gum wrapper it can hang from anything in the book. It can hang from a bullet no bigger than a bean, or ... (Elliott Chaze)

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. ... (John Berger)

To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. ... (Michael Eisner)