FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads. ... (Lord Chesterfield)

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life as if life could be put off for a time what nonsense! ... (Boris Pasternak)

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. ... (Dave Grohl)

Don't be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for. ... (Shannon L. Alder)

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar ... (David Hume)

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. ... (Kim Harrison)

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton Chekhov, my favorite writer's master piece,Three Sisters,when she ... (Cornel West)

That which was bought with blood deserves to last while immortality endures. The ... (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and ... (Louis V. Gerstner Jr.)

No matter how dire a situation may be, I can always find the humor in it somewhere. If I was ever in a horror movie I would be the goofy ... (A.J. Rose)

Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make ... (Morgan Carroll)

God Will Change You Many plans are in a man's mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for him that will stand. PROVERBS 19:21 Even though you may still be ... (Joyce Meyer)

Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

The men came to mind as mostly idle between nights of running wild or time in the pen, cooking moon and gathering around the spout, with ears chewed, fingers chopped, ... (Daniel Woodrell)

Put fourth your best effort in whatever you do...it may be your one and only shot. ... (Jerry Gladstone)

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour. ... (Hans Fallada)

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a ... (Shannon Miller)

Philosophy has been described as thinking about thinking, and all Christians should do that. The term comes from two Greek words, philia ("love") and sophia ("wisdom"), thus "loving wisdom." Nothing ... (Rick Cornish)

[T]hese three days of meditation have revealed to me that every thought I think is, in one way or another, an ugly, fatuous form of self-congratulation. Even what appears to ... (Tim Parks)

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to ... (Annie Besant)

Pure and soft, the melody is entrancing. Haunting. I'm glued to my seat, waiting, hoping for the next enthralling sound. I'd close my eyes if I weren't afraid I'd miss ... (Cassie Graham)

Your home is within you, you carry your place in the world. ... (Kate Lord Brown)

General theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. They are the great intellectual achievements of the first half of this century. ... (Stephen Hawking)

The man and wolf inside him experienced a surge of primal satisfaction. It had been so long since he'd let his guard down around anyone. After just one kiss, he ... (Savannah Stuart)

Some of us aim at being good I prefer to aim at being better ... (Celso Cukierkorn)

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective. ... (Jurgen Moltmann)

Calmness of mind helps us reach the pinnacles of success! ... (Avijeet Das)

Calling is more than purely cultural, but it is also more than purely personal. Discover the meaning of calling and you discover the heart of the gospel itself. ... (Os Guinness)

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. ... (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Yeah, me and Q-Tip is cool outside of the business, but you know, within the business sometimes it can get ugly, you know what I mean? ... (Phife Dawg)