FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

My siren had sung to me for way too long, capturing my heart, tempting me with her body, driving me slowly insane. Now, I expected her to pay up. ... (Katie McGarry)

Alignment of vision, mission, values and attitudes need to be matched between you and those you choose to surround yourself with. The cost of training or replacing will be very ... (Archibald Marwizi)

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. This is all the more worrisome when we engage in deadly conflicts: ... (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

Put out my eyes, and I can see you still; slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet; and without any feet can go to you; and tongueless, ... (Rainer Maria Rilke)

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in ... (Kevin Durant)

The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without ... (Leila Aboulela)

Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out. ... (Tucker Max)

It does not do to dwell on dreams and ... (J.K. Rowling)

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. ... (Jack Kerouac)

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, ... (Milarepa)

That's not wise, Lin. I think wisdom is very over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. ... (Gregory David Roberts)

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it. ... (Conor Cruise O'Brien)

My nature has always been to fight. My faith forces me to forgive. ... (Cindy Martinusen Coloma)

It may interest you that, a day or so ago, attempting to discuss your ideas with regard to sex and religion, my eccentric friend, fixing his eyes rather fiercely upon ... (Aleister Crowley)

For every summer & every summer after. Promise your-self to bare a bit more. To take things to a new level. To reinvent. To reflect back. To keep things humble. ... (Jennifer Pierre)

But how do they get inside?" "They fly," Jace said, and indicated the upper floors of the building. [ ... ] "We don't fly," Clary felt impelled to point out. ... (Cassandra Clare)

Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise. ... (Ian Astbury)

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with ... (Josh Radnor)

The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm. ... (Lauren Leto)

I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough. ... (Boyd K. Packer)

It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together - a longing which shall never perish from the earth, but shall have place ... (Mark Twain)

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians. ... (P. J. O'Rourke)

Termite, you're young, and I'm not sure if you're going to understand what I'm about to say, but here's the nugget: Without the heart, nothing else matters. She could be ... (Charles Martin)

Guns arm for violence; books arm for life. ... (Matshona Dhliwayo)

In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants. ... (Harold Geneen)

[Taken from a BBC documentary] Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long ... (Tariq Ali)

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again. ... (Bob Massie)

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot. ... (Charles B. Rangel)

There're a lot of odd things going on but I feel like I'm slowly getting closer to the truth." -"Actually getting closer to a metaphorical truth? Or metaphorically getting closer ... (Haruki Murakami)

When he finally lifted his head up from the sea to cough, then breathe, he looked out at all the water before him, at the vast expanse of time and ... (Yaa Gyasi)