FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to "a war against" whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) ... (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Like the elite of ancient Egypt, most people in most cultures dedicate their lives to building pyramids. Only the names, shapes and sizes of these pyramids change from one culture ... (Yuval Noah Harari)

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years. ... (Thomas Bulfinch)

One of the towering figures of the age of Enlightenment was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, known to this day in German-speaking lands as the poet of princes and prince of ... (Stephan A. Hoeller)

So when this opportunity came up through Elisabeth Murdoch and her company Shine, to be an executive producer and actually be part of the show, I liked the idea because ... (Naomi Campbell)

My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go 'God! Movie stars! Wow!' And ... (Kim Basinger)

If you're looking for good Mexican food in Vegas, you go to the Arts District. Jonesing for stupidly overpriced jeans or a rhine- stone T-shirt? The Fashion Show Mall has ... (Daniel Younger)

I remember just how bizarre my friendship with Tiffani has been - but then I remember that no one else but Tiffani could really even come close to understanding how ... (Matthew Quick)

Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to ... (Ben Harper)

Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street ... (Charlie Brooker)

Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common. ... (Beeban Kidron)

I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes. ... (James Spithill)

What if she doesn't worry about her body and eats enough for all the growing she has to do? She might rip her stockings and slam-dance on a forged ID ... (Naomi Wolf)

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus ... ... (Marcus Aurelius)

Of course one's sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one's class, race, gender, and sexual identification. ... But [regarding] national character ... ... (Barbara Browning)

What if you ended up in the wrong kind of love? What if you accidentally ended up in the falling kind with someone it would be so gross to fall ... (Carol Rifka Brunt)

As soon as you ascend to heaven in spirit, by being more spiritual and honest with yourself, you will notice that hell comes to you at the exact same time, ... (Robin Sacredfire)

Yeah. Good." I clear my throat. "So, this plan. It's kind of stupid, right?" "It's not ... stupid." "Oh, come on. Trusting Marcus is stupid. Trying to get past the ... (Veronica Roth)

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding ... (Peter Singer)

I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of ... (Prince Royce)

Your stepfather? I'd like to meet him." Oh no ... why? "I'm not sure that's a good idea." Christian unlocks the door, his mouth in a grim line. "Are you ... (E.L. James)

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense. ... (Alfred Bester)

What is it?' Stephanie whispered. 'That, my dear Valkyrie, is what we call a monster.' She looked at Skulduggery. 'You don't know what it is, do you?' 'I told you ... (Derek Landy)

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ... No, another social outcast! ... (S.E. Hinton)

Some lines you just don't cross. Not in my business." "Your business?" Georgia rolled her eyes. "You mean the private detective business? I wasn't aware you guys had such ironclad ... (Laura Oliva)

Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flowers, and so many grade school teachers are single. ... (Daniel Handler)

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer ... (Abraham Lincoln)

I was once invited to the circuit court as an expert; during a break, one of my fellow experts drew my attention to the prosecutor's rude treatment of the defendants, ... (Anton Chekhov)

(For the uninitiated, "ectoplasm" is a ghostly kind of stuff that writers like Dennett are constantly accusing critics of materialism of believing in. It plays the same sort of straw-man ... (Edward Feser)

Mostly though, Rubes, I want to go back in time and beat every single person's ass who's ever made you doubt yourself, because the girl who makes me smile 'til ... (Mariana Zapata)