FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. ... (Sean Parker)

I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will remember my passion for the ... (Nicolas Cotugno)

I remember an insight that taught me much about life. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted in life. I had a creative and meaningful ... (Swami Dhyan Giten)

Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear. ... (Gregor Collins)

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any ... (Soren Kierkegaard)

Fear is necessary for evolution. The fear that one could be destroyed at any moment. ... (Sosuke Aizen)

My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies ... (Tom Peters)

Even today our knowledge of the ocean floors remains remarkably low resolution. ... (Bill Bryson)

The hot air wrapped me up like a blanket, curling around my body and making me want to hang my tongue out like a dog. And then spray it with ... (Robert J. Crane)

Sometimes the darkness beyond is not glorious at all, it truly is an absolute absence of light. A clawing, needy tar that pulls you down. You drown but you don't. ... (Neal Shusterman)

You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross the next river, look down into the next ... (Joe Abercrombie)

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so ... (Mark Rothko)

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better ... (George Alec Effinger)

With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses. ... (Eric Mangini)

The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me ... (Jeremy Aldana)

EJ cries, "We've been best friends since kindergarten. You can't become a babe slayer and leave me in the dust! I don't have an older sister. I'm disadvantaged. All I ... (Brent Crawford)

Everywhere we go, people recognize me. ... (Marion Jones)

I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal. ... (Ed Helms)

That philosopher who orders us to conceal ourselves and to care for no one but ourselves and who wishes us to remain unknown to others, wants us even less to ... (Michel de Montaigne)

The standards for what is "normal" have become so formalized and yet so restrictive that people need a break from that horrible feeling of never being able to measure up ... (Emily Rapp)

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. ... (Wislawa Szymborska)

Over the years, I have noticed that the child who learns quickly is adventurous. She's ready to run risks. She approaches life with arms outspread. She wants to take it ... (John Holt)

Anxiety, as neuropsychologists today tell us, is toxic; our brains are wired to avoid anxiety. Anxiety corrupts the chemistry of the brain and leads us to depart (emotionally or physically) ... (Andrew Root)

To get past your ego and its defenses you need to get quiet, be brave, and listen to your inner voices ... When you embrace the messages of each aspect ... (Debbie Ford)

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the adaptations of organisms, those innumerable ... (Douglas J. Futuyma)

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased. ... (J. Tillman)

No one's going to come shopping if the 'for sale' sign isn't on the door. ... (Eli Easton)

I didn't leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me. ... (Ronald Reagan)

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree? ... (Brian K. Vaughan)

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, ... (Richard Rohr)