FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

People who have experienced war have learned to accept the trials and sufferings of life. Among many wise, older citizens in American society, there is no desperate flight from suffering. ... (Edward T. Welch)

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations. ... (Dean Koontz)

When we have rejected the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture, we allow Christians to depend on things other than the Bible as their guide to matters of life and ... (Tim Challies)

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, ... (J. Cole)

Most had faded to a light jade by now ... all except Chandra, I noted, with more than a little satisfaction. She was still a dazzling Day-Glo emerald, and I ... (Vicki Pettersson)

How do you end a story that's not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a ... (Shaila M. Abdullah)

She described how Camus's aphorism "One must imagine Sisyphus happy" helps her fight back against unproductive feelings of meaninglessness. If we consider, like Camus, Sisyphus at the foot of his ... (Fay Weldon)

You are designed for success. Life's tough, but you are greater than its challenges. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You have a history of victory. ... (Steve Maraboli)

Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be ... (Tennessee Williams)

So let's say you marry this girl. All right, you can still be a great man. Look at all the great men who had wives. Go ahead, be a great ... (Peter S. Beagle)

I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses ... It was a magical, ... (Emily Giffin)

And what I said was I'll miss you, What I meant to say was that I love you, What I wanted to say was that I meant what I said ... (Shane Koyczan)

The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle ... (Robert Thurman)

My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected. ... (Paul Lynde)

You see, even after decades of therapy and workshops and retreats and twelve-steps and meditation and even experiencing a very weird session of rebirthings, even after rappeling down mountains and ... (Carrie Fisher)

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up. ... (Mick Jagger)

So fresh in a building with no windows. ... (Patrick Rothfuss)

Anyone who has property that exceed his needs, let him support someone whose property does not (meet his or her needs), and anyone whose food exceeds his needs, let him ... (Muhammad)

Three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity ... (Umberto Eco)

There are many ways of inducing sleep the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But ... (Laurence Sterne)

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. ... (Charles Lamb)

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you ... (T. S. Eliot)

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. ... (Max McKeown)

You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh? Giggling like a bunch of young broads in a school yard. Well, let me tell you a joke: ... (Quentin Tarantino)

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages ... (Wesley Morris)

Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest. Rife with winsome weirdness, it's ... (Michael Arnzen)

How empty is theory in the presence of fact! ... (Mark Twain)

In real life, Snow White stays dead and Rapunzel grows old, alone in her tower. In real life, you gotta have enough sense to stay away from ugly bitches offering ... (Amy Sumida)

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things. ... (Richard Rohr)

The gambling industry actually generates more income than the music, sports, and movie industries combined. ... (William D. Willis)