FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again ... (James Joyce)

My father then presented Honour with a cheque, "This is from our family for you, only you. Put it in a bank and if my son ever treats you badly, ... (Ruth Ahmed)

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women. ... (Lisa Scottoline)

Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and ... (Jacques Roumain)

The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world. ... (Kilroy J. Oldster)

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We ... (Scott Walker)

So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were ... (Frank Nugent)

Time on Earth is an opportunity to become more highly evolved, and then people move on or cross over - a ... (Patricia Cornwell)

For years, I wanted to know if there was one person, one voice, one individual inside me. All my life people would call me a chink or a chigger. I ... (Eddie Huang)

Father, I'd rather die at your hands than at Liam's ... or worse, Mel's. Give me one second to tell you and then I will run faster than Forrest Gump. ... (J.J. McAvoy)

I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do not love very much. For I ... (John Steinbeck)

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate. ... (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason than they feel the need to have leverage. I find this to ... (C. JoyBell C.)

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see ... (Henry Miller)

I live a healthy lifestyle and I crave healthy food. I love porridge - I have bizarre cravings for it. I love it with brown sugar and bananas, and I'm ... (Jessica Lowndes)

The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, ... (Sally Field)

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing. ... (Majandra Delfino)

You know, Michael," Pastor Charles would often tell him, "some men get high on drugs and make a mess while they are high; others get drunk and behave like animals ... (Stevan V. Nikolic)

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. ... (Joseph Smith Jr.)

Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems ... (R. Kelly)

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history. ... (Gary Hamel)

What are the two of you whispering about?" Alaric demanded irritably. She glanced over to see the warrior watching her, his eyes narrow with suspicion. "If I wanted you to ... (Maya Banks)

Do you not like The Beatles?" Frank asked, sounding shocked. "Do you also not like sunshine and laughter and puppies? I don't think the Beatles get enough recognition. I mean, ... (Morgan Matson)

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear. ... (Harvey MacKay)

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution. ... (James Daly)

As she said this, she tossed him one of her blue-and-gray-checked tea towels to use as an apron. She was wearing a blue summer dress and tucked her towel-apron into ... (Nina George)

Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He ... (Catherine Booth)

I'm sorry I made an oath. I did it because I thought it was the right thing to do. And I'm sorry that I can't break it. But you have ... (T.J. Klune)

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. ... (Bill Delahunt)

Everybody's born to do a certain thing and if you're dead jimmy you've found it. And if you're good at something, just keep doing it until you're fed up ... ... (Mike Scott)