FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

My dear young friends, I want to invite you to "dare to love". Do not desire anything less for your life than a love that is strong and beautiful and ... (Pope Benedict XVI)

I love playing video games. I love listening to music. Just surfing the web. Facebook, Twitter, keeping in touch with people from home. ... (Trey Burke)

Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example ... (Lois Lowry)

There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of the person, no matter what ... (Carl Rogers)

This was a really amazing part of your adventure, Hamlet. You're sure that, should you ever one day write a book about this story or perhaps a stage production, you'd ... (Ryan North)

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ... (Marcel Proust)

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow ... (Shelby Harris)

Jason had to bury his face against her shoulder to keep from laughing out loud. She was just so damn cute. "Stop laughing at me! I'm a threat, damn it!" ... (R.L. Mathewson)

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. ... (Linda Barnes)

The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent ... (Meg Rosoff)

So who is guilty? Everyone, or no one? Why should the worker assigned to the gas chamber be guiltier than the worker assigned to the boilers, the garden, the vehicles? ... (Jonathan Littell)

Whether you sweep the toilet of a school or you make cloths. Whether you take pictures of dancers or you are a full-time house wife. Whether you are a village ... (Emi Iyalla)

Stop eating 'dead' foods: junk, fried, and fast foods, as well as processed carbs. They're loaded with sugar and other additives. The more live foods we eat (fruits and vegetables), ... (Tony Horton)

I don't hate you, Jace." "I don't hate you, either." She looked up at him, relieved. "I'm glad to hear that - " "I wish I could hate you," he ... (Cassandra Clare)

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost. ... (Gunnar Myrdal)

It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there ... (Paul Bowles)

The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments ... (Alexander Hamilton)

Love you," Xavier said just before he drifted back to sleep. "Love you more," I said playfully. "Not a chance," Xavier said, fully awake now. "I'm bigger, I can contain ... (Alexandra Adornetto)

Doesn't Eva have warm and eager flesh?" "Of course. But the sweet thrill wanes somewhat when eagerness is so easily elicited. The succulent bliss of the moment is lost." Johnny ... (Linda Robertson)

Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of former Beatle John Lennon and the mother of singer Julian Lennon, died April 1 at her home in Spain. She was 75. ... (Anonymous)

Form a clear picture of what you want (which could include more free and leisure time). 2. Identify, eliminate, or reduce fears, beliefs, or doubts that block you. 3. Get ... (Doreen Virtue)

These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers' faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute ... (Jonathan Swift)

The only possible explanation for the absence of a proactive word to express nonviolence is that not only the political establishments but the cultural and intellectual establishments of all societies ... (Mark Kurlansky)

Maybe this was the way it had always happened, with no fate ever involved; you simply fell in with the people around you, and no matter what else happened in ... (Kim Stanley Robinson)

Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?' enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over. 'One long difficult word is the same as a whole sentence full ... (Michel Faber)

I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation. ... (Mads Mikkelsen)

Always think in circles to get your ideas around ... (Benny Bellamacina)

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. ... (Russell Baker)

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction ... (A.R. Ammons)