FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

This prayer is not mental, but of the heart. It is not a prayer of thought alone, because the mind of man is so limited, that while it is occupied ... (Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon)

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do. ... (Kalpana Chawla)

Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change-consciously change-your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision. ... (Neale Donald Walsch)

The immersive ugliness of the built environment in the USA is entropy made visible. It indicates not simple carelessness but a vivid drive toward destruction, decay and death: the stage-set ... (James Howard Kunstler)

There is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not ... (Ernestine Rose)

That's the point. This healthy-feeling time now just feels like a tease. Like I'm in this holding pattern, flying in smooth circles within sight of the airport, in super-comfortable first ... (Jessica Verdi)

Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a ... (Pseudonymous Bosch)

Flash Floods are about as predictable as a crazy dream after one too many fish tacos - one minutes you're fine, and the next minute a moose is floating past ... (Doreen Cronin)

For 30 years I have used my platform in provocative ways to encourage a healthy dialogue about important issues, including HIV/AIDS, war, and homelessness. I'm well aware of the risks ... (Kenneth Cole)

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays. ... (Kapil Dev)

The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as ... (R.D. Ronald)

... I have all these questions in my head. Like, Could we write? Before you go, could we do something? I mean, is this honestly the last time I see ... (Mariah Fredericks)

Hear you're going to be on crutches for quite a while." "Yes, well - " "Abigail has already said she's moving back home to help you." "Oh," said Madeline. "Oh." ... (Liane Moriarty)

After Donald Trump wrote Lindsey Graham's cellphone number on a piece of paper and showed it to everybody, Graham said he's getting a new phone. Which explains Lindsey Graham's latest ... (Jimmy Fallon)

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece. ... (Gary Shteyngart)

Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to ... (Zachary Schomburg)

I could imagine his sorrow. My father had a sensual relationship with his books. He loved feeling them, stroking them, sniffing them. He took a physical pleasure in books: he ... (Amos Oz)

It's not about getting over things, it's about making room for them. It's about painting the picture with contrast. ... (Brianna Wiest)

And yet he sometimes wondered if he could ever love anyone as much as he loved Jude. It was the fact of him, of course, but also the utter comfort ... (Hanya Yanagihara)

Not the first time. I didn't think my heart could stand it. But the airplane is a wonderful thing. You are still in one place when you arrive at the ... (V.S. Naipaul)

Be careful of your spelling, if an o can make count cunt, what it might do to you. ... (M.F. Moonzajer)

I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't. ... (Mike Royer)

My wife thinks I think I'm such hot stuff. She's wrong. I don't think I'm such hot stuff. My hero George Bernard Shaw, socialist, and shrewd and funny playwright, said ... (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another. ... (Stefan Zweig)

So you, personally, identify as - " "Don't think about it as how I identify. Think about it as how I actually am. ... (Adam Bertocci)

Things change," said the former Sunlord, "as we see." And once again he looked at Dairine. "You arrive for your people's first sight of you as Sunlord, and what do ... (Diane Duane)

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces. ... (Alexander Dubcek)

I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea of a loving and merciful deity is inconsistent ... (A.C. Grayling)

So that's how we end up helping Aviva pick out a male escort. Even Darcy is impressed with Eugene's organization; each profile in the boy binder has two pictures, a ... (Flynn Meaney)

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere. ... (Henny Youngman)