FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She ... (John Steinbeck)

I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break ... (Jen Lancaster)

Kittridge closed his eyes. So, the end. It would happen instantaneously, a painless departure, quicker than thought. he felt the presence of his body one last time: the taste of ... (Justin Cronin)

I mentioned that Jesus came to invade satan's kingdom. When He did, the long period of time covered by the Old Testament permanently changed. Jesus brought a new covenant. When ... (C. Peter Wagner)

Spending some time alone is a therapy that most of us don't know how to practice. You need a little time alone every now and then to know what you ... (Mohamed Ghazi)

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world. ... (Margaret Laurence)

One of the reasons for learning about type is to recognize that we are constantly motivated, simply by the way we've established our neural networks, to shape reality along particular ... (Lenore Thomson)

For years, i lived my life, waiting for the other shoe to drop ... i thought control was something i could have over my life. My goal was to live ... (Jaeda DeWalt)

Seeing as this is probably my last hurrah, I don't suppose I could get you two bleeding hearts to massacre a village with me? For old time's sake. - Jackal ... (Julie Kagawa)

Lenin held that religion was a simply product of social oppression and economic exploitation. 'The social oppression of toiling masses, their apparent complete helplessness before the blind forces of capitalism ... (Geoffrey Hosking)

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour. ... (Ani DiFranco)

Did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god i'm ... (Dalton Trumbo)

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives. ... (Raoul Vaneigem)

You either fainted or you wanted a much closer look at the cracks in the tile. Either way, you hit hard." "Seriously?" He nodded. "Maybe you shouldn't have been trying ... (Darynda Jones)

Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the ... (Billy Taylor)

Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We ... (Lisa Kleypas)

We say, "It wasn't that bad. It was all my fault. I'm making all this stuff up. " All my life, I spoke bitterly of my mother's treatment of me ... (Sarah E. Olson)

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading. ... (Marianne Williamson)

He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living. ... (Luis Marques)

I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand. ... (Lauren Conrad)

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days. ... (Eugene Ormandy)

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting. ... (Jan de Bont)

For me, there's a lot of expectations and you want to be able to live up to them. ... (Allyson Felix)

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, ... (Esther Hicks)

We'd need to leave fast. The biggest hurdle would be finding a ship. Passages across the Atlantic didn't always work out. The Black Sea wasn't easy to cross either. The ... (Ilona Andrews)

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. ... (Laurie Metcalf)

The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose; and the text of Scripture which he now most commonly quotes is, "The Kingdom of heaven is within you." That text has ... (G.K. Chesterton)

The blood is the life! ... (Bram Stoker)

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it. ... (Antony Beevor)

The meaning of life is to give life a meaning. ... (Wendy Mass)