FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you're in it, when you're up to your ... (Sarah Dunn)

To me, knowing how to do something is like cheating. That's why I never studied in grade school. Studying made passing tests too easy. Anybody can pass a test if ... (Gary Reilly)

By extrapolating a little from Freud, it becomes possible to think of nationalism as a kind of narcissism. A nationalist takes the neutral facts about a people - their language, ... (Michael Ignatieff)

Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most. ... (Lindsey Rietzsch)

In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went with them when they were ... (Steven W. Mosher)

Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to the Muslim world. Both wrote books ... (Jim Al-Khalili)

The concept of war crimes is an American invention. ... (George Wald)

-Are you ready to return to the outside world, Billy? -No, definitely not, sir. -Well, you can't stay here forever now, can you? -Why not? I'm not bothering anybody, sir. ... (Joe Meno)

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed. ... (Gillian Flynn)

I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the ... (James Mirrlees)

Our lives are different. Inexplicably, intrinsically joined, but different. ... (David Levithan)

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it. ... (Andy Rourke)

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having. ... (Emma Goldman)

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself! ... (Soren Kierkegaard)

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing. ... (Harrison Ford)

To what extent the machine abases us. - The machine is impersonal, it deprives the piece of work of its pride, of the individual goodness and faultiness that adheres to ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy. ... (Caitlin Moran)

Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ... (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

There are moments in life when you blunder in front of a window, or a glass. And you stop to see the most risible creature peering back at you, in ... (Ian Weir)

When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was ... (Loretta Lynn)

I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day. ... (Emeraude Toubia)

Friendship is not enjoyable unless we take up its expressive challenges. If a person surrounds himself with "friends" who simply reaffirm his public persona, who never question his dreams and ... (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)

Only when we see both the freeness and the cost of forgiveness will we get relief from the guilt as well as liberation from the power of sin in our ... (Timothy Keller)

Books never lied to me, never betrayed me, never left me alone and wondering what was wrong with me. ... (Michelle Zink)

It is impossible to find a single example of a monopoly that has ever existed without official protection. ... (Faustino Ballve)

You are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person. ... (Greg Behrendt)

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more ... (William J. Clinton)

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to ... (Zach Braff)

Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe. ... (Stephen Nichols)

At this the Wart's eyes grew rounder and rounder, until they were about as big as the owl's who was sitting on his shoulder, and his face got redder and ... (T.H. White)