FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is ... (C.S. Lewis)

It is the mistaken idea that if I reward mediocrity, I will curtail the person's aspirations to be better. That is a commonly held myth that keeps some parents from ... (Gary Chapman)

When the auto arrives it's hard to believe there's a functional vehicle underneath all the mud and moss and sprays of gravel, which stick to the sides like barnacles on ... (Robert Jackson Bennett)

This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do ... (George W. Bush)

Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to ... (Keith Devlin)

The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get going by yourself, but if you have a plan and a ... (Allyson Felix)

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. ... (Mel Gibson)

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it. ... (Theodor W. Adorno)

Outside the bedroom Jane fumbled around and in her purse and produced a pack of cigarettes, but couldn't figure out whether to smoke one or not. "Holy Motown Jesus with ... (Christopher Moore)

I love my life. I'm really grateful. My biggest dream come true is my daughter. I've wanted her since I was a little girl. ... (Erika Eleniak)

I can hear you say, "What a horrible, irresponsible bastard!" And you're right. I leap to agree with you. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. ... (Ralph Ellison)

As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because ... (Steve Wozniak)

Maybe if I smile the barrel will be pointed at someone else. ... (Nikki Wallschlaeger)

Fiji, I'm betting you don't drink a lot," he said, trying to suppress a smile. "I don't," she confessed. "How did you know?" "Just a lucky guess." "You think he'd ... (Charlaine Harris)

Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children. ... (Ahmed Zewail)

If tolerance poses as a middle road between rejection on the one side and assimilation on the other, this road, as already suggested, is paved by necessity rather than virtue; ... (Wendy Brown)

There were times when he confronted his own image as a man confronts an empty valley, and the vision propelled him forward again to experience as despair compels us to ... (John le Carre)

She was young, healthy, stronger than she'd ever been. And she was in love with him. She'd fallen in love with a man who challenged the world to take him ... (Anne Bishop)

Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the ... (John McCain)

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. ... (Ron Chernow)

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. ... (W. H. Auden)

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. ... (Samuel Richardson)

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these ... (Flannery O'Connor)

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to ... (Paul Johnson)

I Cry your pardon." ~ The Gunslinger ... (Stephen King)

It's been kind of hard, I'm labeled as a jerk right now, you know what I mean? But I love it. I've been a jerk all my life. My momma ... (Stephen Jackson)

It takes a very long time to sever a marriage in which children are involved. There is a table, two chairs, and a small pile of bargaining chips. This is ... (Kate Mulgrew)

We were not restrained in our chairs, but there were so many guns on us that if I scratched my nose, the shooting aftermath would look like somebody had just ... (David Wong)

When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems - ... (Ed Asner)

I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young. ... (Samantha Newark)