FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more ... (Edward Abbey)

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to ... (Lysander Spooner)

To be sure, all translation is interpretation. ... Be that as it may, functional-equivalence translations, which presume that ambiguity, multivalence, and contradiction are by definition not part of the Bible, ... (Timothy Beal)

Lay me down for the eternal sleep, and my soul will be forever yours to keep. ... (Anonymous)

Galeano emphasized the import of nature in the European "conquest/invasion" of Latin America and the subsequent and ongoing colonial project. And he "located" the divorce of nature and people's communion ... (Federico Luisetti)

If I hadn't had a baby, a part of me thinks I might have turned up on the red carpets all the time and gone, 'Hi, it's me!' Maybe other ... (Catherine Tate)

When I approach a band, I want to respect them and be respectful of their music. I'm not gonna say, 'Look, you guys are real hot, so we'll stick you ... (John Hughes)

One of the most powerful things I'd learned since getting sober is to love and accept life on life's terms. Alcoholics have a hard time doing this; we're little id-driven ... (Michelle Tea)

I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive. ... (Gideon Glick)

The happiest lot is not to have experienced the keenest delights or the greatest pleasures, but to have brought life to a close without any very great pain, bodily or ... (Arthur Schopenhauer)

And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced - too eagerly in my view - that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible PAP category. From this, ... (Richard Dawkins)

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use ... (Winston Churchill)

The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling. ... (Gary Vaynerchuk)

Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked over the first domino by ... (David Eagleman)

Too much of our society looks for people to fail. ... (Roger Goodell)

Today i want to talk to you, and you don't have time. Tomorrow you would desperately want to talk to me and I won't be around ... (Kunal Bhardwaj)

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart. ... (Jane Wilson-Howarth)

There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my mother wasn't too thrilled. She wanted me to ... (Olivia Newton-John)

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely Went to ... (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

If "fast" and "slow" animals had parties, writes the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, "some of the fasts would bore everyone with their loud conversation, while others would mutter into ... (Susan Cain)

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish. ... (Kimiko Glenn)

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our ... (Pat Summitt)

According to Ahava, the woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the ... (Rachel Held Evans)

I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm ... (Norm MacDonald)

I am your father." He glanced at Seth and smirked. "That's the second Star Wars nod. Keeping track? ... (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to. ... (Pope Francis)

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality. ... (Raquel Welch)

Imagine a forty-five-year-old male fifty feet long, a slim, shiny black animal cutting the surface of green ocean water at twenty knots. At fifty tons it is the largest carnivore ... (Barry Lopez)

I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for ... (Jehane Noujaim)

It is clear from the evidence presented in this book that the pharmaceutical industry does a biased job of disseminating evidence - to be surprised by this would be absurd ... (Ben Goldacre)