FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. ... (Julian Bond)

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up. ... (Jackie Chan)

When you're in morgue you're seeing life that no longer exists. It gives you an appreciation when you look someone in the eye, you shake their hand, and you hug ... (Milo Ventimiglia)

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend ... (L.M. Montgomery)

It's not what Ryodan does," Jo says slowly. "It's more what he is." Her eyes take on a serious sheen. "He's like, unbelievably brilliant, ten steps ahead of everyone else ... (Karen Marie Moning)

The way individuals live together. The truth of each individual is only the truth of his own narrow perspective. The entirety of mankind and of human qualities is always seen ... (Jakob Wassermann)

I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant. ... (Casey Stengel)

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive. ... (Sheryl Swoopes)

We do not want freedom without bread, nor do we want bread without freedom. Investiture, Clark University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 10, 1993 ... (Nelson Mandela)

Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump. ... (Warren Ellis)

Green-eyed monsters," said Magnus, and grinned. He deposited Chairman Meow on the ground, and the cat moved over to Alec, and rubbed against his leg. "The Chairman likes you." "Is ... (Cassandra Clare)

I always prayed the same way at night: "Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I ... (Pamela Taeuffer)

Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on ... (Michael Ray)

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and ... (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure. ... (Rebecca Wells)

But he was an only child and an only son, and for a mother in such a position it is not always easy to accept that another woman will eventually ... (Alexander McCall Smith)

I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the ... (Larry Bishop)

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that ... (Tavi Gevinson)

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and ... (Apsley Cherry-Garrard)

I don't have emotions about a lot of things. I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don't get sad and ... (Leonardo DiCaprio)

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. ... (Daniel Webster)

Great men never require experience. ... (Benjamin Disraeli)

Outside of my professional life, I have known many couples over the years who had passion and electricity between them and who treated each other well. But unfortunately there is ... (Lundy Bancroft)

What did Jonathan Edwards mean in sending word to his wife that their union was "uncommon"? Was it that? And how was a union that had issued in eleven offspring ... (James William McClendon Jr.)

Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work. ... (Tad Williams)

She might even enjoy it. The few times that she'd gone to bed with boys she had always ended up giggling or weeping and it might be nice to try ... (David Nicholls)

People? They usually ask only stupid questions, forcing you to reply with equally stupid answers. For instance, they ask you what you do, not what you would have liked to ... (Ahlam Mosteghanemi)

The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. ... (Zygmunt Bauman)

UG staff is patching up wargs, and all surviving Guardians are tied up," Wraith said, "But they could probably use some medical attention. Especially the one dipshit with the idiotic ... (Larissa Ione)

Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that ... (Jamaica Kincaid)