FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

We are falling back into allegory," said the Captain, interrupting him. "If you mean by all that that the body is the most solid of realities, then say so." "No, ... (Marguerite Yourcenar)

Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over ... (Jack LaLanne)

I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same ... (Malgorzata Szumowska)

I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange ... (Craig Ferguson)

Many people infected with C. diff are sick with diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, and weight loss. Others are "carriers" of C. diff with no signs or symptoms of disease. Some ... (J. Thomas LaMont)

Why is it that all the main work of breaking down human souls went on at night? Why, from their very earliest years, did the Organs select the night? Because ... (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

Sins of the past that I can't rectify alone. Sins I committed as an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D. I need help and fast. I need someone off the books. Someone angry. ... (Nathan Edmondson)

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one ... (Samuel Johnson)

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. ... (Paul Theroux)

We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and ... (Gabe Newell)

The exit is usually where the entrance was. ... (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards. ... (George W. Bush)

Edith's clothes were flung in disarray on the floor beside the bed, the covers of which had been thrown back carelessly; she lay naked and glistening under the light on ... (John Edward Williams)

You want to hear it? Fine. It's a simple story really, about a pretty girl who was pretty stupid. She let a man touch her because she was scared to ... (Cora Carmack)

There was no reply. So Z glanced over again - just as a tear slide down Phury's cheek. "Ah ... fuck," Z muttered. "Yeah. Pretty much." Another tear rolled out ... (J.R. Ward)

I was blessed with another trait I inherited from my mother, her ability to forget the pain in life. I remember the thing that caused the trauma, but I don't ... (Trevor Noah)

I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful. ... (Olivia Munn)

[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense the Innocent Woman Principle:;: Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they ... (Warren Farrell)

That brought Rachel up short. Getting any sort of response out of Notak was hard enough. She could count one hand the times she had ever seen him actually hurt ... (S.G. Night)

Lord Jesus, brokenness surrounds me. My body, mind, and soul are weary. I am weak, but You are strong. I desire the endurance to persevere and complete the tasks You ... (D. Duane Engler)

Lord, will you send me with such an unbelieving heart to persuade others to believe? Must I daily plead with sinners about everlasting life and everlasting death, and have no ... (Richard Baxter)

There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one of us. Shukhov squeezes everything he ... (Eric Bogosian)

The music glides between the pores of your skin to bubble through your veins in place of blood, and you can't help but clutch the mic with both trembling hands ... (Jasinda Wilder)

From the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown ... (Jeannette Walls)

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate ... (Thomas Jefferson)

Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right? ... (James Brolin)

Maude regards the ones who don't make it as her own personal failures. "I guess I didn't put enough emphasis on 'until death do you part,'" she says sourly, whenever ... (Susan Wittig Albert)

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others ... (Edmund Burke)

Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when ... (Toni Morrison)

Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office ... (Terry Pratchett)