FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change ... (Judith Viorst)

My heart is a traitor," the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to rest the horses. "It doesn't want me to go on." "That makes sense," the ... (Paulo Coelho)

I suck at fighting. I have never really learned how to talk and be mad at the same time. If I have angry words to say, I need time to ... (Rob Sheffield)

We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary ... (Joschka Fischer)

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another ... (J.B. Priestley)

You soon know the difference between a real newspaper and an electronic one as soon as a fly won't leave you alone. ... (Jeremy Lee)

Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet? ... He holds back for our sakes. Re-creation involves us; we are, ... (Philip Yancey)

I'm so drunk," I said through the bathroom door, though it wasn't true. I'd declared it to him in my anxiety to take pressure and responsibility off of myself for ... (Aspen Matis)

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, ... (Ashley Jensen)

I'm so sorry. God, baby. What were you doing? You ... God." He took a shaky breath. "You couldn't breathe. He hit you so hard and you went down and ... (Abbi Glines)

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the ... (Patrick Wilson)

There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart, I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for me to ... (Sanhita Baruah)

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by ... (Raymond Chandler)

As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression. ... (Frederick Lenz)

She can outstare anyone, and I am almost as good. We're impervious, we scintillate, we are thirteen. We wear long wool coats with tie belts, the collars turned up to ... (Margaret Atwood)

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. ... (Helmut Newton)

This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss. A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that ... (Carol Fragale Brill)

If you have patience, then you'll also have love. Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won't be able to enjoy its beauty ... (Mata Amritanandamayi)

Again? Honestly, do you guys think she's hiding in Shakespeare's Sonnets? - Tina Lewis ... (R.J. Morse, R.J. Brookes)

Flounder, flounder, in the sea, Come, I pray thee, here to me; For my wife, good Ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will. ... (HarperPerennial Classics)

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time. ... (Ken Blanchard)

Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all ... (Tom Coburn)

If you believe in the problem, then for the sake of balance you have to believe in the solution. ... (Jennifer Adele)

During construction, when a worker died, his body was built right into the Wall itself. No one knew how many corpses lay within the stone and mortar, but some estimates ... (Gordon Korman)

Instead of casting off the foreign skin, as John Quincy Adams had stipulated, never to resume it, the fashion is to resume the foreign skin as conspicuously as can be. ... (Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.)

The problem with being ravished by books at an early age is that later rereadings are often likely to disappoint. "The sharp luscious flavor, the fine aroma is fled," Hazlitt ... (Anne Fadiman)

The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to ... (Paul Haggis)

I hope you know that television and computers are no more your friends, and no more increasers of your brainpower, than slot machines. All they want is for you to ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun. ... (Al Yankovic)