FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

One reason I won't compromise is because I believe honesty helps you win over the long haul. You can win a game tomorrow and lose a team. You can lose ... (Lou Holtz)

But the truth is, I want to be some woman's work boots, not her high heels." "Work boots?" What was sexy about that? And did women have work boots? "Yeah. ... (Erin McCarthy)

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself ... (Samantha Harvey)

To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. ... (Arthur Miller)

Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that ... (David Sedaris)

Swung between the purest love and the wildest hatred. In spite of the fact that she gave herself to me without reservation, I would suddenly be overcome with the feeling ... (Ernesto Sabato)

Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight is all you get. ... (Margaret Peterson Haddix)

Why would you want to make them happy?" Amberdrake turned back to his little friend, and sat with a sad smile on his face. "Because they are bitter, unhappy people, ... (Mercedes Lackey)

Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you're capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied ... (Tsoknyi Rinpoche)

Brenda burst in. "Do you know what some people do? They charge something and wear it, and then take it back and say it didn't fit or something. The stores ... (Katherine Paterson)

People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, ... (Wayne Gretzky)

I take it you just etched your name on the invitation list for our little coffee klatch," Mitch noted, now looking at Sebring. Knight grinned. "I'll bring the pastries. ... (Kristen Ashley)

Unassuming in manner, genial and kindly in his intercourse with his fellow-men, never showing impatience or irritation, devoid of personal ambition of the baser sort or of the slightest desire ... (Henry Andrews Bumstead)

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable ... (Brian Molko)

The Next Big Thing is Christ's return. Until then, we live in hope that changes our ordinary lives here and now. ... (Michael S. Horton)

One would think that man would run out of wars ... ... (Dalton Camp)

My first book was the book that changed my life. ... (Stephen Ambrose)

Nicole craved sweets. Her list included peach pie, rhubarb pie, and pumpkin pie, all of which would be on hand the following week for the Fourth of July cookout on ... (Barbara Delinsky)

I've got a better idea," says my mother. "Tell me about what you did today. Tell me about New York." So I do, I tell the lifelong New Yorker who ... (Jami Attenberg)

You will do well in everything you seek out to do ... because you don't give up. Others make mistakes, fall down, lose heart, and you do too, but you ... (Danielle Weiler)

[Constant curiousity leads to happiness:] I wake up curious every day and every day I'm surprised by something. And if I can just recognize that surprise every day and say, ... (Michael J. Fox)

Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy. ... (Alfred North Whitehead)

My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to ... (Xavier Dolan)

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you ... (Mos Def)

It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be ... (Thomas S. Monson)

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father. ... (Brennan Manning)

Resilience isn't cultivated by avoiding stress, you see, but by learning how to tame and master it. ... (Jessica Joelle Alexander)

For the next few minutes, I made great shots until a creepy biker guy stood too close and I missed. Cooper took the stick and studied the remaining balls. "Don't ... (Bijou Hunter)

If we were created from the very fiber of our birth parents' physical and emotional beings, don't you think our need to think about them would be innate? If we ... (Sherrie Eldridge)

The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data ... (Barton Gellman)