FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and ... (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

You don't know the meaning of true love if you think it can be deliberately selected. You just love, that's all. A natural force, irresistible. ... (Saul Bellow)

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. ... (David Levithan)

You can't be transcendent,... which will mean to be perfect in everything. You can try to act as such person, but there is a lot of to learn. - As ... (Deyth Banger)

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, without looking at her. ... (Michael Scott)

I am not a women that takes anything for granted, I'll lay endlessly With you and talk about meaningful and logical, I'll watch the stars at midnight and the way ... (Nikki Rowe)

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval. ... (Khaled Hosseini)

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants ... (John Abizaid)

The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to ... (Liam Neeson)

All my requests are in but one, thy Will be done. ... (Charles Wesley)

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer ... (Henri J.M. Nouwen)

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco. ... (Charlie Munger)

Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust ... (David Richo)

Years," said one guy. "What happened?" asked the other guy. ... (Various)

Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all! Not for such hopes and fears Annulling youth's brief years, Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark! Rather I prize ... (Robert Browning)

If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full. ... (J.M. Coetzee)

A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two ... succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course. ... (Jim Butcher)

Well, so you don't get too cocky, I myself often complete the TV Guide crossword puzzle." He puffed out his chest. "In pen. ... (Shelly Laurenston)

Growing, something to grow like a channel or something else, is great to view it and to be part of it. ... (Deyth Banger)

You don't need to retire to a cloister or the desert for years on end to experience a true dark night; you don't even have to be pursuing any particular ... (Tim Farrington)

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. ... (Izaak Walton)

I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight. ... (Rick Riordan)

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an ... (Dennis Miller)

It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies ... (Walead Beshty)

Blindness to larger contexts is a constitutional defect of human thinking imposed by the painful necessity of being able to concentrate on only one thing at a time. We forget ... (Hugh Nibley)

Don't settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one! ... (Stephen Richards)

Rabi-'ah's achievement built on a tradition of female literacy, scholarship and intellectual creativity reaching back to the dawn of thought. Countless ancient myths ascribe the birth of language to women ... (Rosalind Miles)

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic ... (John P. Kotter)

Shame is not a good emotion for a man to feel. It makes him angry as often as it makes him sorry. ... (Robin Hobb)

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience ... (Siri Hustvedt)