FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Any one above or below the prescribed ages who takes part in the public hymeneals shall be said to have done an unholy and unrighteous thing; the child of which ... (Plato)

I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me. ... (Selena Gomez)

Let your internet engagement show your inner beauty through online actions with Netiquette. ... (David Chiles)

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after ... (Henry David Thoreau)

In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural ... (Samuel Adams)

I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see ... (Diana Quick)

I've always been a guy that doesn't do well waiting for people to say, "You can act." It's always been a part of me. ... (Matthew Lillard)

Safe! Such a colorful, horrible bog of lace and silks as I have hopes of never seeing again! You have proven to be our hero, kind Sir, for indeed, had ... (Lindsey Renee Backen)

I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. ... (J. D. Souther)

The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space. ... (Mark Batterson)

Felicia nodded. "Sometimes I have that problem. I know nearly everything you can learn in a book and very little that you learn in life. Like my fear of spiders. ... (Susan Mallery)

Dusty didn't lust after him like her stepsisters did - he seemed like kind of an idiot. But she could recognize that he was also a prize. And it was ... (Sarah Cross)

Even short commutes stab at your happiness. According to the research,* commuting is associated with an increased risk of obesity, insomnia, stress, neck and back pain, high blood pressure, and ... (Jason Fried)

You mistake my intent on our non-existent boyfriend/girlfriend relationship." He steps closer. "We might not be using the titles, but I still claim you as mine. ... (Skyla Madi)

You do not mess with the special investigators. ... (Lee Child)

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, ... (Philippe Aries)

So, the MacGregors." "Yeah." Jane nodded with a long sigh. "The MacGregors." "I don't get what the big deal is with them," Charlotte said. "If you saw under their kilts, ... (Michelle M. Pillow)

Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings.. ... (Victoria Addino)

Cosmopolitan theology affirms and radicalizes the belief that the Divine creates each and every human being as equal to every one else as a _citizen-of-the-cosmos and that no one is ... (Namsoon Kang)

But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want, ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house. ... (Julian Clary)

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where ... (Vladimir Nabokov)

Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending ... (Sylvia Boorstein)

...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her. ... (E. Sue Blume)

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from ... (Roger McDonald)

The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action role and we're having a scene together, there's ... (Andy Serkis)

A recent study shows that one hundred per cent of youngsters on hard drugs had at some time in their lives listened to so-called pop music ... (William Donaldson)

Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of ... (Lucy Christopher)

Well, I think home spat me out, the blackouts and curfews like tongue against loose tooth. God, do you know how difficult it is, to talk about the day your ... (Warsan Shire)

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true ... (Freeman Dyson)