FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

We found a smooth inviting boulder under a vast banyan tree, and sat in companionable silence. There unexpectedly, on that rock, I saw the secret of contentment. True happiness is ... (Jane Wilson-Howarth)

Yes, I'm sorry you won't be coming with us," Chloe said to Alex. "But please don't worry. I'm certain The Lord has another plan for you." She glanced at me. ... (Meg Cabot)

Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound our own hearts how even ... (David Bezmozgis)

I thought we were better then this." "We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five minutes. ... (Alastair Reynolds)

Gathering her courage, she swallowed past the lump in her throat and held his gaze. It wasn't how she'd envisioned telling him, but she couldn't let him go without saying ... (Kaylea Cross)

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone ... (Patrick Stewart)

In a generation everything can change. ... (Hilary Mantel)

As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women's magazine, a comic, ... (Mem Fox)

You want to leave something; you really do. I mean, in the end, statues and all those things, that doesn't mean anything. Leave something that we're all going to benefit ... (George Foreman)

Who knows more of gods than I? Horse gods and fire gods, gods made of gold with gemstone eyes, gods carved of cedar wood, gods chiseled into mountains, gods of ... (George r r martin)

I believe you get up in the morning and do the best you can. ... (Allan Dare Pearce)

Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire's White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk ... (Rob Brezsny)

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. ... (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

They were empowered and fulfilled. They dated occasionally but were just as happy living the feminist dream of a professional woman not answerable to any man. Do what they wanted ... (Annette J. Dunlea)

I didn't say, "I'll call you." I didn't hug her because of the wet clothes. Just a quick kiss. Then I turned and left. I made my way quietly down ... (Barry Eisler)

You will never know the love I feel for her. How beautiful it is. How painful it can be. What it felt like when I first looked at her. And ... (Sarah Brianne)

So you aren't going to tell me what just happened?" I deduced. The fact was clearly readable across his face. He looked me over again and sighed. "Just be careful ... (Markelle Grabo)

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point. ... (Dogen)

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and ... (Walter M. Miller Jr.)

The best way to escape life's monotony is by exploring someone else's mind. ... (Shana Blueming)

As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to ... (Lewis H. Lapham)

Some people can be so disoriented to God that when he begins to work around them, they actually become annoyed at the interruption! ... (Henry T. Blackaby)

For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to order one's own dinner is not at all ... (Oscar Wilde)

Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on. ... (Ke$ha)

Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride thinking "only so many seconds ... (Takehiko Inoue)

Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom. ... (George W. Bush)

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited ... (Daisaku Ikeda)

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue. ... (Margaret of Valois)

But today when people talk about the history of Hopkins's relationship with the black community, the story many of them hold up as the worst offense is that of Henrietta ... (Rebecca Skloot)

This notebook might be all I have left of her. My hand is still hovering over the cover, tempting me to open it and find her again, even if it's ... (Tahereh Mafi)