FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang ... (Charles Dance)

Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit! ... (John Newman)

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ... (Marthe Troly-Curtin)

Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it. ... (Delma Pryce)

As his gaze rose to her face - he bit back a gasp. "Your hair, it's - " "Red." ... "You look stunning." ... "Did I ever tell you that ... (Kristin Miller)

You hurt me, I want to say. You're my best friend. The one who's supposed to tell me I'd be the best boyfriend in the world and that any girl ... (Lauren Layne)

Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, ... (Osamu Dazai)

I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, ... (Taylor Schilling)

I can't take this kind of suspense. Decide now." He untied the ropes around her wrists. "Walk out the door. In a year you'll be free of any entanglements with ... (Christina Dodd)

Most men have boxes in their waffle that have no words. There are thoughts, but they don't always translate into words. Not all of the wordless boxes have thoughts, however. ... (Bill Farrel)

Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology. ... (Nouman Ali Khan)

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous. ... (Jaime Winstone)

Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the ... (Charles S. Maier)

Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of ... (Ashley Wagner)

You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to get into a zone. You know you're in ... (Mike Matarazzo)

For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do ... (Jess Walter)

In the expectant quiet, there were only the usual sounds of the night. Wind in the big trees out past the school wall, starting to rise as the sky darkened, ... (Garth Nix)

Don't go for the ones that know your worth even when you don't. Even when you call them to pick you up because some fuck boy left you with only ... (Unknown)

Any thoughts of being with Parker were long gone, and I knew it was because of my feelings for Travis. I thought about the different paths my life would take ... (Jamie McGuire)

May the Lord ignite the flame of light in your soul. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

I miss him so badly it hurts. ... (Suzanne Collins)

Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava. ... (Frederick Lenz)

I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past. ... (Kellyn Roth)

Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm ... (Bruce Friedrich)

Quentin flicked a quick glance back at her again. Poppy. This girl had the wrong name. She should have been Rose. Great face, lots of prickles. ... (Ros Baxter)

There are many famous people who could read extremely fast. It was said that England's Samuel Johnson could read almost as fast as he could look at the pages. While ... (Peter Kump)

These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's ... (Mother Teresa)

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of ... (Criss Jami)

Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become proverbial. It is related that one day, wishing ... (Camille Flammarion)

Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life! ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

If you're single, use this time now to make the biggest impact you can for God's Kingdom. Enjoy how God uses you as a single adult to show His love ... (Jack Graham)

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. ... (John Philip Sousa)

Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not mess with the future of our ... (Luis Fortuno)

Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to ... (Stephen Covey)

[H]aving heard, or more probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself, or stupefy myself, or kill time, ... (Samuel Beckett)

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can. ... (Julian Barnes)

To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved. ... (Francis Chan)

Would you want to rule the world?" Eve asked Roarke. "Or even the country?" "Good God, no. Too much work for too little remuneration, and very little time left over ... (J.D. Robb)

The given world dazzles with wonder, poetry, and purpose. The man-made world, on the other hand, is a perverse realm of ego and envy, where power-mad cynics make false idols ... (Dean Koontz)

I believe God will fight my battles for me. ... (Joel Osteen)

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe ... (Edward Bernays)

You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world. ... (Abhijit Naskar)

Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we ... (David Attenborough)

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition. ... (Maggie Stiefvater)

Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man?" It would ... (Charlotte Bronte)

When the soul opens its shell, it liberates the fundamental center that is the spirit. And once born, the spirit spreads its wings and flies with all the freedom of ... (Alex Polari de Alverga)

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there ... (Gloria Steinem)

Life's gonna kick you in the butt. That's what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will ... (Richelle E. Goodrich)

My heart- dammit my heart stopped in my chest as I stared at them. He had me by the throat because he had my whole world in his hands. I ... (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

His eyes widened. "Pain? Darling, you haven't yet experienced the pain I can inflict when I've been played for a fool. I'm in awe at your gall to try and ... (E. Jamie)

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to ... (Sarah Dessen)

Christianity had not started off as the ideology of an empire. Virtually nothing is known about its supposed founder, Jesus of Nazareth. There is not even any definite proof he ... (Chris Harman)

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky. ... (Paul Neilan)

Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley ... (L.M. Montgomery)

Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger; would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided; sicknesses healed.... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally ... (Steve Goodier)

As expected, the church lady grumbled something incoherent and put Bridget's call on hold. A peppy rendition of "City of God" blared as hold music just long enough for Bridget ... (Gretchen McNeil)

It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought had your back run, others ... sometimes strangers ... (Sanjo Jendayi)

Statistically speaking, giving in the church today is embarrassing at best. So, there needs to be a message, a movement that addresses the problem in this very prosperous nation that ... (Bob Coy)

Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those ... (Rachel Caine)

It's hurtful somehow to admit this thing and anyway that doesn't mean i'm losing my faith in this beautiful world. But these days now is the time where people have ... (Reza Rusandi)