FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet? ... He holds back for our sakes. Re-creation involves us; we are, ... (Philip Yancey)

We all love each other, Ange," I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. "No, not like this," she went on relentlessly. "Fang loves you." ... My mouth dropped open. How ... (James Patterson)

Life's too short for a funeral. ... (Bill Smith)

The purpose of life afterall is to live it. ... (Eleanor Roosevelt)

The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. ... (Phyllis Diller)

The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote ... (J.G. Ballard)

Emperor of Mars: We should be rid of the Earthling now. Count Rochefort: Was your daughter on the ship? Emperor of Mars: Yes. Emperor of Mars: Life is sad. ... (Jason)

Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin ... (Rainer Maria Rilke)

I would never change having loved your mother. In fact, I should have never hidden it, because it's only when things remain in the shadows that they have the power ... (April White)

Shane, how many ways must I say it? I don't want to be introduced as your girlfriend, especially in front of your family." "I'll call you Tonto, my sidekick. You ... (Carol Devine)

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down ... (Eddie Van Halen)

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things. ... (Andy Warhol)

[My mom told me] to always be loyal and treat someone how you want to be treated. Find someone that you can love and that's going to be your best ... (Paris Hilton)

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife) ... (Audrey Niffenegger)

Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die. ... (Nenia Campbell)

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. ... (Jean-Paul Sartre)

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little ... (Andrew Bird)

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor. ... (Joan Jett)

When things went right, it was generally because the woman had cleverly manipulated the guy into good dating behavior. He'd call when he said he would. Put some thought into ... (Kristan Higgins)

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality ... (Jesus Zamora Bonilla)

But time and surprise are the two most vital elements in war. ... (B.H. Liddell Hart)

Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously. They openly see its roles as theatrical, ... (James P. Carse)

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership ... (Leo Tolstoy)

This trial is a farce. The real prosecutor is not the state of Finland, but the government of one great power. The real defendants are not the persons who were ... (Risto Ryti)

He smoothed his fingers along her jawline and lifted her chin, kissing her gently, testing. Lindsey went light-headed with the rush of sensation, the touch of his lips leaving her ... (Tracy March)

The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples ... (Cordelia Fine)

Your wish is my wish. ... (Kele Moon)

I love you more than my own skin and even though you don't love me the same way, you love me anyways, don't you? And if you don't, I'll always ... (Frida Kahlo)

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful. ... (Bruce Lee)

One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today. ... (Gail Thackray)