FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of ... (Reza Aslan)

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by ... (Will Schwalbe)

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything. ... (Hermann E. Ott)

He had a wild yellow beard and long, tangled hair that stood out from his head in a way that made it seem too large for his shoulders, though they ... (Gene Wolfe)

Allomancy wasn't just about fighting and killing. It was about skill and grace. It was something beautiful. ... (Brandon Sanderson)

To get more clients, measure what you manage. ... (Lisa A. Mininni)

What happened?" "Oil." The sheikh shook his head. "The great cursed wealth from beneath the ground that the Prophet foresaw would destroy us. And statehood-what a terrible idea that was, ... (G. Willow Wilson)

You can't imagine fame. You can only ever see it from an outsider and comment on it with the rueful wisdom of a non participant. When it happens to you, ... (Benedict Cumberbatch)

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that ... (John Green)

It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time ... (Alice McDermott)

The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to ... (Leonard Peikoff)

What is God doing in my life? In the mornings, I wake to find that he has traced the world in silver. Every blade of grass. Each pumpkin on the ... (Christie Purifoy)

Years passed. The trees in our yard grew taller. I watched my family and my friends and neighbors, the teachers whom I'd had or imaged having, the high school I ... (Alice Sebold)

I knew that Clara kept Carax's book in a glass cabinet by the arch of the balcony. I crept up to it. My plan, or my lack of it, was ... (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

It is for that moment when I might steady you so you don't fall, I have added my blood to an inkwell. Indelible now will be my mark on history's ... (Rumi)

I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, ... (Nancy O'Dell)

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death? Who will stop the coming night? Blue eyes, blue eyes, have ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

I can't help it, Kate. And I'm laughing at me. I feel like one of those sappy men who run around with a big grin on his face all the ... (Christine Feehan)

People always confuse intelligence with rational thinking and skepticism. I think it's a big mistake to assume anyone that follows a cult, religion, political party we don't like, etc is ... (Jon Moore)

The madman's explanation of a thing is always complete, and often in a purely rational sense satisfactory. Or, to speak more strictly, the insane explanation, if not conclusive, is at ... (G.K. Chesterton)

Random? You'€d almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a particular belief system'€s scriptures. Nah ... ... (Andrew C. McCarthy)

The bravest men are subject most to chance. ... (John Dryden)

It is possible to have the administration of the sacraments and the preaching of the Word of God and to have it be simply a human exercise. ... (Dallas Willard)

Let Catholics build their own churches and works. ... (Vladimir Zhirinovsky)

A scoop of pure honey set in a green bowl. ... (Peter Godfrey-Smith)

On the other hand, she never looked as -big- as she did at that moment. "What?" Rose demanded, glaring up at him. The warning signal flashed bright red in Kane's ... (Christine Feehan)

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory. ... (Nicolas Berggruen)

For my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow ... (William Shakespeare)

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. ... (Gerry Spence)

Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito. ... (Paul Kalanithi)