FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: ... (N.K. Jemisin)

There's always enough to fill up the headlines in a newspaper, the evening news broadcasts. I'm always grateful when I get the weekly news magazines on Monday morning and don't ... (Jimmy Carter)

When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your ... (Marlene Dumas)

I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more ... (Vanessa L Ochs)

Why don't you find out for yourself? Then you'll see the glass, hidden in the grass. ... (Morrissey)

We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm. ... (Eminem)

Forgiveness and grace are like oxygen: we can't offer it to others unless we put our masks on first. ... (Glennon Doyle Melton)

Here upon the earth evil is such was Shakespeare's declaration in the most emphatic accent. Iago actually exists. There is also in the earth a sacred passion of deliverance a ... (Edward Dowden)

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. ... (Arthur C. Clarke)

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as ... (Donella Meadows)

SCHOOL BEGINS IN August this year. I live nearby, and so I walk and skip the bus. I read while I walk to school up the two hills, one sidewalk, ... (Alexander Chee)

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. ... (Michael Badnarik)

As long as you are forced to be a woman first instead of a person, by default, you need to be a feminist. That's it. Men are people, women are ... (Alexandra Petri)

Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what ... (John Greenleaf Whittier)

On good days, which don't come often, I love my ship and everything it represents. I thrill at the thought of seeing Earth II. There are going to be so ... (Lauren James)

If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. ... (Will Arnett)

As a result of things that may have happened in their past, women seem to find it hard to trust anybody. They are so worried that people will somehow dislike ... (Corallie Buchanan)

But our world at the end of the twentieth century has so much destruction without Christian artists so emphasizing the minor theme in the total body of their work that ... (Francis A. Schaeffer)

The Governor of Syria, when he heard of this horrid act called a council of his staff to decide whether Mithridates should be avenged by a punitive expedition against his ... (Robert Graves)

We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. ... (Bruce Barton)

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too? ... (Patricia Briggs)

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create. ... (Jack White)

The number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. ... (George Stigler)

Life without money seems to be incomplete,but money without life is absolutely useless ... (ABC)

I mean to court you, yes," he went on. "But in these coming days I am determined as well to find a way to ease your heart." It took her ... (Loretta Chase)

The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships ... (Gene Sharp)

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become. ... (Chris Prentiss)

We watch a sunlight dust dance, and we try to be that lively, but nobody knows what music those particles hear. Each of us has a secret companion musician to ... (Rumi)

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except ... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon ... (Floyd Dell)