FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and ... (Leonard Peltier)

Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell ... (Seth Grahame-Smith)

I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in ... (Emily Giffin)

I've always thought of myself as a realist. I can remember fighting with my professors about it in grad school. The world that I live in consists of 250 advertisements ... (David Foster Wallace)

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment ... (Caroline Alexander)

As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, ... (Brian Skerry)

All of us are part of a big story. It is a story that is much bigger than we know. Do not confuse the life you live with the story. ... (Frederick Reiken)

The renaissance of interest in Eastern spiritual philosophies, various mystical traditions, meditation, ancient and aboriginal wisdom, as well as the widespread psychedelic experimentation during the stormy 1960s, made it absolutely ... (Stanislav Grof)

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace. ... (Douglas Feith)

You think I'm a fool," I noted. "That I shouldn't wait for him." She shook her head, eyes widening like I'd misunderstood her. "I didn't say that. Only you can ... (R.K. Lilley)

The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in. ... (Mark Mobius)

Dagmar, really. Annwyl has always been crazy. All you've been doing the last few years is muffling it. You've never shut it off. Not completely." "And did Annwyl just threaten ... (G.A. Aiken)

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from. ... (Dwight Yoakam)

I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars ... (Robin Sacredfire)

Day after day we read about them, each new man more brilliant than the last. They were not just an all-star first team, but an all-star second team as well. ... (David Halberstam)

Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. If so disposed, the Architect of the ... (Andrew Carnegie)

Not one word about proposals, no matter how much she pushes," I told my friends. "No matter what she says or how loud she cries, don't try to throw that ... (Molly Harper)

What?" I said, suspicion starting to rise in me. "When did they start coming after you?" "Was it - was it after the oil-slick Hummer crash?" the Gasman asked Iggy ... (James Patterson)

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. ... (Confucius)

American airstrikes have targeted ISIS in Libya before. Just last fall, another ISIS leader was killed. And I'm told there are several more training camps and we'll likely see more ... (Tom Bowman)

He just tells him to "descend" from his power position, "go away and get rid of all your possessions." Money is only the metaphor here; the real possession he has ... (Richard Rohr)

Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent. ... (Pearl Zhu)

You're lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you've locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at ... (Nicole Krauss)

Favoring specialization over intelligence is exactly wrong, especially in high tech. The world is changing so fast across every industry and endeavor that it's a given the role for which ... (Eric Schmidt)

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think ... This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact. ... (Joanne Harris)

I suppose I'm the one responsible for destroying myself. ... (Natsuo Kirino)

It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare. ... (Christian Nestell Bovee)

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler. ... (Henry David Thoreau)

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle. ... (Brett Favre)

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved peace by a constant preparation for war; ... (Edward Gibbon)