FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do but the life of spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself ... (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

The career batting average (.254) during parts of five Major League seasons for Francisco Cabrera - which proves that it takes only one big hit, on the right stage, to ... (Tucker Elliot)

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well. ... (Bella Thorne)

And I didn't fall in love with the game of basketball just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it Because I got guys like this, Like ... (Kevin Durant)

(It starts with) One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme To explain in due time ... (Linkin Park)

When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental ... (Duncan Roy)

I had always heard rumors of her, Nanook thought, she who can control the wind, the water, the earth, and fire ... she who can talk to time. But those ... (Sarah Warden)

I lied," I said ... "I know it," he said. "Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it's something." "I cant," he said. "There aint anything to do? ... (William Faulkner)

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years ... (David Petraeus)

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. ... (Alice Walker)

Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone that way someday! How did ... (Gerald Morris)

Junior, stop being orner." It's what Mama used to say to us when we were little, and I say it to Junior out of habit. Daddy used to say it ... (Jesmyn Ward)

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling ... (Lauren Weisberger)

Kings of a bakery? The very suggestion was laughable. How easy it was to assume that elsewhere was infinitely better than where you stood. Sometimes at night, she dreamed of ... (Sarah McCoy)

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it. ... (Sally Field)

Of course for professional traders on the stock exchange, money had always been imaginary - just as notional, just as easy come and easy go, as the points in a ... (Lionel Shriver)

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul. ... (D.H. Lawrence)

Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves. ... (Mikhail Bulgakov)

Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits. ... (Evander Holyfield)

Non-churchgoer s tend to see Christians as takers rather than givers. When Christians sacrifice and give wildly to the poor, that is truly a light that glimmers. The Bible teaches ... (Francis Chan)

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive ... (Suzy Kassem)

As I glanced around my room, sliding my dinosaur back and forth on its chain, I though that maybe that was the point--that instead of happy endings, you get beginnings. ... (Meg Leder)

Anywhere you want. Any time you want. One condition - it has to be amazing. ... (Toby Whithouse)

Over the years I've found it much more helpful to follow the advice of Sister Liebert and seek to treat each young person as a teacher from God, someone God ... (Mark Yaconelli)

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian! ... (Bill Watterson)

Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust ... (David Richo)

Lakes, carillonst, Pools and bells, Fifes and freshets, Harps and wells; Flutes and rivers, Streams, bassoons, Geysers, trumpets, Chimes lagoons, Hear the music, Drink the water, As we poor lambs ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

I am mad again, he thought. Tears brimmed. He swallowed in a tightened throat. I don't want to be. I'm tired, I'm tired and horny, I'm so tired I can't ... (Samuel R. Delany)

Know the world from end to end is a mirror; in each atom a hundred suns are concealed. If you pierce the heart of a single drop of water, from ... (Mahmud Shabistari)

When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the ... (Stephen Levine)

My knowledge of Vancouver and Canada was limited to what I knew about Bob and Doug McKenzie. I thought they were funny, talking out of the sides of their mouths ... (Peter DeLuise)

Didn't know anyone could see it," Samuel said. "You know, Lee, I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and ... (John Steinbeck)

Maulana Rumi was reading under the shade of a tree by a river, a pile of books besides him - according to one variation he was teaching a group of ... (Zulfiqar Ahmad)

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the ... (David Nicholls)

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

I look out again at the sun-my first full gaze. It is blood-red and men are walking about on rooftops. Everything above the horizon is clear to me. It is ... (Henry Miller)

But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was forever shut out of Mama's brain. ... (Anna Jeffrey)

Don't be afraid to make mistakes; they are just the stepping-stones to success. ... (Louis Zamperini)

While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. ... (Bill Cosby)

We need to put our full hope, trust, and dependency on God, and God alone. And if we do that, we will learn what it means to finally find peace ... (Yasmin Mogahed)

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success. ... (Amy Poehler)

Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there ... (Kristin Cashore)

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried ... (Erin Morgenstern)

Shouldn't be having a birthday party two weeks after your birthday ... Okay, three days, no more than that though, it's not your birthday anymore! There's gotta be a time, ... (Larry David)

Why are you standing here, Charlie Brown?" "I'm waiting for that little red-haired girl to walk by ... I'm going to say hello to her and ask her how she's ... (Charles M. Schulz)

But if we abide in Him and He abides in us, we will bear much fruit in oneness with other believers. He will give us the glory to come into ... (Che Ahn)

The biggest milestone in a relationship is when you can fart in front of each other freely and loudly. Without judgements ... (Himmilicious)

I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection ... (Lemony Snicket)

My good friends David and Avi sent me a text greeting from their gym in NYC at 8 a.m. this morning. Isn't that a fine how do you do! ... (Dean Haglund)

You have two choices, sweetheart. Answer my questions, or get a monster new facial piercing. ... (Dennis Sharpe)

A pie in the face is funny. Comedy gold. ... (Matthew Moy)

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads ... (Augustus Hare)

To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our ... (Pope Benedict XVI)

... our aim has been to provide anyone who is seriously interested with an introduction to the world of the archetypes, and to make this introduction as simple as possible. ... (Erich Neumann)

Such revolutions in formal learning and felt experience needed new modes to express their understanding, beyond sonorous Ciceronian periods and the rigid structure of heroic couplets. It needed something looser, ... (Lydia Pyne)

The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of their repetition, the incantatory force ... (Tony Hendra)

While Diana finds the monarchy as presently organized a crumbling institution, she has a deep respect for the manner in which the Queen has conducted herself for the last forty ... (Andrew Morton)

In life we have our trophy people. These are the ones we work hard for, we are proud of. We want to show them off to our family, our friends, ... (Brittany Williams)

As I begin to recognise that the Negro is the symbol of sin, I catch myself hating the Negro. But then I recognise that I am a Negro. There are ... (Frantz Fanon)

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other ... (W. Somerset Maugham)