FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether. ... (Ashley Young)

Now that young girls like my twelve-year-old friend Mai are being exposed to modern Western women like me through crowds of tourists, they're experiencing those first critical moments of cultural ... (Elizabeth Gilbert)

But the most sumptuous thing in the room at that moment was naturally the sumptuously laid table, though, of course, even that was comparatively speaking: the table-cloth was clean, the ... (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these ... (Louise Wilson)

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom ... (E.A. Bucchianeri)

Good evening, London. I would introduce myself, but truth to tell, I do not have a name. You can call me "V". Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have ... (Alan Moore)

A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. ... (Todd Burpo)

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really ... (Hermann Hesse)

All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another. ... (Tegan Quin)

If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?. ... (Brian Kenny)

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it! ... (Michael Korda)

If we could see ourselves ... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end ... (Immanuel Kant)

You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of ... (Frederick Lenz)

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs. ... (Adrian Grenier)

That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. ... (Eric Thomas)

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and ... (Robert M. Pirsig)

Your path will diverge for a while, but do not let that worry you. You have known difficulty before, but you will survive and thrive. ... (Joanne Guidoccio)

This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and this one says I spend the rest of my life ... (Melina Marchetta)

Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. ... (George Orwell)

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a ... (Pope John Paul II)

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the ... (Gloria Steinem)

It wouldn't fade. It wouldn't shift to another. It probably wouldn't always be easy ... but it would always be ... always. ... (S.C. Stephens)

It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, ... (Karl Marx)

Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable. ... (Angela Duckworth)

Forgiveness in no way justifies the actions that caused your wounding, nor does it mean that you have to seek out those who harmed you. It is simply a movement ... (Dawna Markova)

The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arranged and tended ... (Penelope Hobhouse)

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. ... (Remy de Gourmont)

They were just clear of the summer colony before the first sleeper turned over and lifted a drowsy head; their cry sounded in the dreams of little children... who lifted ... (Katherine Mansfield)

How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering. ... (Che Guevara)

Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair ... ... (J.K. Rowling)