FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. ... (Benjamin Franklin)

Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put ... (Ralph Nader)

So which guideline should a writer follow, "Avoid elegant variation" or "Don't use a word twice on one page"? Traditional style guides don't resolve the contradiction, but psycholinguistics can help. ... (Steven Pinker)

Nim looked aghast. "Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No - it's Number Seven of the wives. Her name is Begonia." "Oh, no, ... (Colleen Chen)

I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

What are the unreal things, but the passions that once burned one like fire? What are the incredible things, but the things that one has faithfully believed? What are the ... (Oscar Wilde)

Listen to me carefully, sweet girl. Don't live any other way than the way that makes you happy. If you aren't happy, leave your lover. If you aren't happy, quit ... (Sara Wolf)

So, kiss the girl. Buy the dress. Take a vacation. Join the circus. Order the fried frog legs. Try out for the play. Learn to snowboard. Do something that scares ... (Valerie Thomas)

You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing. ... (John McAleer)

Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could ... (Haruki Murakami)

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who ... (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

My friend Wicker once said to be careful what and how you say what you're really thinking to a woman. After much screwing up in that department with Emma, I've ... (Cyndi Goodgame)

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty. ... (Rachel Naomi Remen)

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor. ... (Beatrice Lillie)

Love is the most mysterious force in the universe. It locks two souls together across space and time. Once that spark is ignited it consumes all else. It was that ... (Kion Ahadi)

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix ... (Baron de Montesquieu)

My life has been a storm of change, Some I did not want, but all I have weathered. ... (Jason E. Hodges)

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world, until some factor, sometimes serious, sometimes superficial, depending on the individual circumstances, forces ... (Paulo Coelho)

Blake filled her world. The sweaty male scent of him was in her nostrils, the slippery texture of his hot skin under her hands; the unbearably erotic taste of his ... (Linda Howard)

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no ... (Paul Simon)

When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the ... (Mark Lawrence)

Everything that is ended, everything that is last, naturally awakens in man a feeling of sorrow and melancholy. At the same time, it excites a pleasurable feeling, pleasurable in that ... (Giacomo Leopardi)

I have no past the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away. ... (James Kavanaugh)

It is absolutely what I think.' He looks deadly serious now. 'These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programmes to show they're useful and ... (Sophie Kinsella)

I will shut down Instagram so girls can't use filters into tricking us that they are that pretty; you're eyes aren't that blue, and you don't glow. ... (Daniel Tosh)

It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder. "What's a shame?" Duncan asked. "That I didn't capture her first." Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's ... (Julie Garwood)

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks ... (Eckhart Tolle)

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is ... (Max Heindel)

Some men, when they do you a kindness, at once demand the payment of gratitude from you; others are more modest than this. However, they remember the favor, and look ... (Marcus Aurelius)

As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of some people's means. This can be ... (Annalee Newitz)