FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop themselves. Sometimes I've wondered what I ... (Steve Largent)

Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything ... (Craig D. Lounsbrough)

Before he followed her, Hank rushed to the back and ... (J.E. Bright)

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of ... (Henry David Thoreau)

If I had it my way, Harper and I wouldn't be standing in this room right now, we wouldn't be pressed against each other. I would just be her roommate's ... (Molly McAdams)

When I say, 'I love you,' it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, ... (Joss Whedon)

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and ... (Daya)

Look, I don't know who has been telling you over the years that you aren't worthy of love and happiness, but they're idiots. We all deserve it. And if people ... (Karina Halle)

Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone ... (Rick Warren)

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people. ... (David Ogilvy)

From the mountain peaks for streams descend and flow near the town; in the cascades the white water is calling, but the mistis do not hear it. On the hillsides, ... (Jose Maria Arguedas)

No one becomes a scholar by virtue of robe and turban. Scholarship is a virtue in its very essence, and whether that virtue is clothed in tunic or overcoat, it ... (Rumi)

Thanks to April," she whispered, "you have the wedding you've dreamed about ever since you were a little girl." Dean's boom of laughter was one more reason she loved this ... (Susan Elizabeth Phillips)

How can we be sure the CIA wasn't involved in the Kennedy assassination?" "I don't know," said Stone. "How can we be sure?" "He's dead, isn't he?" said Wood. ... (Neil Gaiman)

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus. ... (Tyler Cowen)

I need a lot of support ... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival ... (Robert Downey Jr.)

For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the ... (Virginia Woolf)

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself. ... (Laozi)

Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His ... (Douglas Preston)

Is - it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning knowledge, which is looked upon as the instrument by which to take possession of the Absolute, or as ... (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond ... (Thomas Jefferson)

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others. ... (Juvenal)

No one talked about it, but somehow they all ended up in Neil and Matt's room. Matt and Aaron shoved the couch out of the way, and the girls showed ... (Nora Sakavic)

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe. ... (Bonnie Jo Campbell)

Yet lost in the debate about America's true intentions in the Middle East was the fact that large majorities in every Muslim-majority state surveyed told pollsters they wanted to see ... (Reza Aslan)

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, ... (Ida B. Wells)

...ignorance is a curse lying in wait for the younger generation, for those who forgot to ask. ... (Hannah Mary Rothschild)

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, ... (N. T. Wright)

What's important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It's up to ... (Cheryl Strayed)