FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. ... (Herbert V. Prochnow)

We allow our daily concerns to turn into worry and therefore sin when our thoughts become focused on changing the future instead of doing our best to handle our present ... (John F. MacArthur Jr.)

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, ... (D.H. Lawrence)

True friends may only speak several times a year and visit even less. But when life's challenges leave one of them vulnerable and in need of compassion, time and distance ... (Shane Eric Mathias)

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to ... (Victor Cherbuliez)

Though we were all taught to be proud of living in this great parliamentary democracy the civil servants who ran it were a fearsome bunch - a nameless mass of ... (Meg Rosoff)

I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke ... (Bernie Mac)

Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, ... (Karan Bajaj)

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans. ... (Steve Forbes)

Te is thus the natural miracle of one who seems born to be wise and humane, comparable to what we call "perfect specimens" of flowers, trees, or butterflies - though ... (Alan W. Watts)

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no ... (Wilford Brimley)

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence. ... (Bruce Eric Kaplan)

Henceforth we find woman no longer a slave of man and tool of lust, but the pride and joy of her husband, the fond mother training her children to virtue ... (Philip Schaff)

You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book ... (Noam Chomsky)

Her [Gilberte's] face, grown almost ugly, reminded me then of those dreary beaches where the sea, ebbing far out, wearies one with its faint shimmering, everywhere the same, encircled by ... (Marcel Proust)

When the media is strategically controlled by politics, finding the truth requires active searching, and many people are simply unwilling to put forth the effort to seek it out. So ... (Dan Wos)

It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things ... (Bruce Crown)

We do have some strong traditions of community in the United States, but it's interesting to me that our traditionally patriotic imagery in this country celebrates the individual, the solo ... (Barbara Kingsolver)

The pigs, either because of the shock of it or because they hated being possessed by demons, went wild and threw themselves over the cliff, all two thousand of them, ... (Jose Saramago)

Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because he ... (Elie Wiesel)

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what. ... (Sade Adu)

A significant amount of Conventional Wisdom about healthy eating is marketing fodder that grossly distorts the fundamental truth that humans thrive on natural plant and animal foods or that relies ... (Mark Sisson)

I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. ... (Art Buchwald)

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child. ... (Romare Bearden)

We ran to the others - it was clear Derek wasn't accepting a leisurely stroll. I took the lead so this huge guy wouldn't come barreling down on them. That ... (Kelley Armstrong)

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery. ... (Graham Kendall)

Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries ... (H.L. Mencken)

Come close to me baby. Let your love hold you. I know this world is crazy, but what's it without you? ... (Common)

Because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith. ... (Paulo Coelho)

Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need. ... (Karen Finerman)