FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems ... (Thomas Sowell)

I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you describe. This must be owing ... (Thomas Jefferson)

When my mother died, I thought I'd drown in sorrow. But my grandmother said something very wise, and I've always held it close to my heart. She said that not ... (T. Frohock)

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be ... (Sloane Crosley)

But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their ... (Rafe Esquith)

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer. ... (Hannibal Buress)

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it. ... (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

Later, Ella looked for the two swallows in the eaves outside the window, watching them even more closely now. The thought of them flying all that way, across mountains and ... (Anna Hope)

Wordy! I enjoy description - I like words, and words are the tools that writers use, just like paint is the tool that artists use. I think words are fun, ... (Natalie Babbitt)

I think ghostliness is a good quality. I pretend I'm dead all the time." "What?" He stopped rummaging through his locker to look at me full in the face a ... (Natalie Standiford)

Be kind like a flower and know that life is beautiful like springtime. ... (Debasish Mridha)

I don't know. I don't know, Jess," he said as a sob shuddered through him. "Because I am a damned fool. Fuck! I have everything I want right in front ... (M.L. Rhodes)

Oh what force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one" like me remembering the way it could have been. Help me with this barricade. No surrender. ... (John K. Samson)

I opened a writing app and began typing what I knew about Pierce. Vain. Terminal fear of T-shirts or any other garment that would cover his pectorals. Deadly. Doesn't hesitate ... (Ilona Andrews)

We are told: "We should not protect those who are unable to defend themselves with their own human resources." But against the overwhelming forces of totalitarianism, when all of this ... (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life ... (Kevwe Eyagbe)

When you accept you are a winner, that is when you will triumph. ... (Stephen Richards)

From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary condition that it was possible I ... (Daniel Defoe)

You never really know a woman till you meet her in court. ... (Jerry Lawler)

Bad things happen to realists. ... (David Mitchell)

Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle ... (Claudio Ranieri)

Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels ... (Basho Matsuo)

He's just another man who wants to teach me something. ... (Sheila Heti)

And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them ... (Audre Lorde)

The storms in our lives can best be handled through a sound thinking, a calm stance and a high spirits! ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

Among people, particularly those I love, I so easily get talking and give out everything possible in conversation, so that it is not available for my work. It is a ... (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Only by walking with God can we hope to find the path that leads to life. That is what it means to be a disciple. After all aren't we 'followers ... (John Eldredge)

A miracle is a display of power from beyond the five senses. ... (Deepak Chopra)

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! ... (William Wordsworth)

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good. ... (Whoopi Goldberg)