FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found ... (Lev Grossman)

Anna and I did not make love. I don't remember why. Maybe we didn't need to. She might have been afraid, although I doubt she was afraid of much. She'd ... (Norman Lock)

Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile. We're halfway down the first tunnel when I realize ... (Suzanne Collins)

The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and boldly at life, and write about ... (Lu Xun)

Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger. ... (Sam Owen)

There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment. ... (Jeffrey Zeldman)

If we were a rock 'n' roll band, We'd travel all over the land. We'd play and we'd sing and wear spangly things, If we were a rock 'n' roll ... (Shel Silverstein)

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us ... (Ayn Rand)

Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our ... (Aziz Ansari)

The Christian mind ... is not a mind which is thinking specifically about Christian or even religious topics, but a mind which is thinking about everything, however apparently 'secular', and ... (John R.W. Stott)

February Boris Pasternak It's February. Get ink. Weep. Write the heart out about it, sing Another song of February While raucous slush burns black with spring. Six grivnas* for a ... (Boris Pasternak)

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, oh how my heart yearns for you. ... (Buddy Holly)

Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying ... (Rita Rudner)

The person - especially a woman - may be disillusioned by the fact that over time a man's affection turns out to be only, so to speak, a cover for ... (Pope John Paul II)

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me. ... (Khaled Hosseini)

Always remember: Business is War. At the end of the day, the one with access to the best intel wins. This applies as much to business and politics as it ... (Ziad K. Abdelnour)

I would never have chosen that life for myself, I know. But God knew what he was doing. And everything I went through turned out to make songs like we ... (Lacey Sturm)

I'm a good girl. I'm a nice girl. I'm a straight-A, strait-laced, good daughter, good career girl, and I never stole anybody's boyfriend and I never ran out on a ... (Claire Messud)

Decision-making. Far from placing the nation and the world at risk to protect his own reputation for toughness, he probably would have backed down, in public if necessary, whatever the ... (Robert F. Kennedy)

Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the ... (Barack Obama)

It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject ... (John Adams)

That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide. ... (Jay Caselberg)

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only. ... (Anuj)

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation. ... (John C. Reilly)

Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and ... (Mohammad Javad Zarif)

We don't need to know the effects of single agents on health, because this is not the way that nature works. Nutrition has a wholistic effect on health; one that ... (T. Colin Campbell)

In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to ... (Fernando Pessoa)

And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and ... (Tobias Dantzig)

We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ... (Doris Lessing)

Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, ... (Marcel Proust)