FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Too many commercials, too many lies Too many celebrities I don't recognize Too many brand names, too many magazines I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing Simple ... (Fred Small)

We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are ... (Billy Graham)

Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home, the one that makes their waste disappear in ... (John Medaille)

If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - ... (Julianna Baggott)

Well you are fresh Your face is fabulous Don't forget you're one of a kind When nobody's checking the deeds you've done And nobody's hearing your cries You make all ... (Jason Mraz)

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. ... (Michel Foucault)

It was too late, though: I was already too smart for the therapist. Or maybe I was never amenable to therapy. Either way, I wasn't going to change. I had ... (M.E. Thomas)

This beach I voyage on leads me through the earth's immortal consistencies. Each form I encounter obeys the principles of perfection and trial, a timelessness in the making. The proportions ... (John Hay)

There are facts can poison you dead as arsenic. I have long known this to be true. There are facts can get you drunker than sipping whiskey straight. ... (Alice Randall)

Set not your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. He changes not! Live ... (Robert Murray McCheyne)

There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches. ... (Frank Carson)

Some of my best sources are ex-policemen, just to get a feeling of what it's like to be one. And it's quite different from being a civilian - except, of ... (Terry Pratchett)

Don't be afraid to fail. ... (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines help me aim a little ... (Paul Rudnick)

Evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire") ... (William S. Wilson)

It was beautiful, and that is a word I would not need to explain to the girls from back home, and I do not need to explain to you, because ... (Chris Cleave)

But how could you believe me? after all the thousands of times i told you i loved you how could you let one word break your faith in me ... (Stephenie Meyer)

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith ... (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like ... (Haruki Murakami)

When healthy people fall in love, they buy a bunch of flowers or an engagement ring and go and Do Something About It. When poets fall in love, they make ... (Mark Forsyth)

Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra ... (Mirra Alfassa)

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves. ... (Wendell Phillips)

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen ... (Alice Brown)

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise ... (John Dryden)

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than ... (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today. ... (Jim Davis)

I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy. {William Petty] ... (Carl Zimmer)

You have to admit it's embarrassing that she's pregnant at thirty-three. And he's eleven years older. I feel sorry for their baby. Think of it - when the baby is ... (Judy Blume)

We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the ... (Nancy Leigh DeMoss)

What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of ... (John O'Donohue)