FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I want to marry you, Malda - because I love you - because you are young and strong and beautiful - because you are wild and sweet and - fragrant, ... (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

[Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come. ... (Eric Voegelin)

She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream, or dropping a letter ... (Jhumpa Lahiri)

Love is not like choosing a partner for whist. It has a life of its own. our duty is merely to follow its call. ... (Dominic Smith)

Do not let the fear of unknown deter you from trying. Keep trying until you succeed. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - ... (Dario Argento)

You fall into thought while staring at the green foliage back here - so much damn green that it envelops you in its cruddy fist - and the thoughts aren't ... (Brian Alan Ellis)

By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted ... (Eric Hoffer)

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power. ... (Gloria Steinem)

"If it's a outside deal, how will I get my kids back?" Kit asked. "The Cabals have them." Chloe and Derek's heads both whipped Kit's way. "You're considering this?" Chloe ... (Kelley Armstrong)

I have experience near-death many times but a divine power saved me. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

-tacito mala vota susiro concipimus" -- Lucan v 94 With silent whisperings we, For ill things supplicants be. ... (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)

Well I'm not going to hope that you get hurt, but if you do, remember that you're my damsel in distress, and no one is allowed to carry you." "I ... (Claire LaZebnik)

I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating ... (Elliott Gould)

God, our Heavenly Father, loves us, His children - and one of our greatest privileges is coming to Him in prayer. And because He already knows our needs, we can ... (Billy Graham)

I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me ... (Charlotte Bronte)

It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. ... (Sarah Dessen)

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film ... (James Dean)

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life. ... (Saint John Chrysostom)

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four. ... (Barbara Kingsolver)

1 One of Coios' daughters, Asteria, took the form of a quail 5 and threw herself into the sea to escape the embraces of Zeus; ... (Apollodorus)

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again. ... (Wesley Morris)

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. ... (Sean Connery)

Longitudinal study of people over age 75, conducted over a period of 21 years by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, looked at whether activities from ... (Christiane Northrup)

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. ... (Paul Muldoon)

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ... (Pete McCloskey)

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive. ... (Sherry Turkle)

Because my entire life I'd seen those feelings as a fortress protecting me from potential hurts and damages. Instead of a fortress, they had been a cage, holding me back. ... (Brenna Aubrey)

Many families amass more objects than their houses can hold. The result is garages given over to old furniture and unused sports equipment, home offices cluttered with boxes of stuff ... (Daniel J. Levitin)

There is no Gnan (True Knowledge) where there is 'egoism' and where there is Gnan, there is no 'egoism'. ... (Dada Bhagwan)