FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Grownups know things, said Piggy. They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be alright They wouldn't set fire to the island. ... (William Golding)

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts. ... (Masashi Kishimoto)

We wish to continue in following up the legacy of the Second Vatican Council whose wise regulations have still to be led to their fulfilment, being careful that a push, ... (Pope John Paul I)

There is no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ... (Sydney Harris)

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. ... (John Roberts)

The trouble was, Elizabeth thought, they did not tell the children of colonial families not to love these foreign lands, not to fall in love with their birthplaces. While parents ... (Anne M. Chappel)

I first became aware of death when my father held me up to see the view from the top of the Empire State Building. I thought that if he moved ... (Chrissi Sepe)

Maybe she should take out a book and read, for it don't make no sense to just lean against the shop front, doing nothing, and she start to search in ... (Pamela Mordecai)

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his ... (Rachel Cohn)

I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life ... (Rachel McAdams)

We hold one another close in this, our last moment and kiss. Your goodbye is in our lips, good luck wishes shine in those robin's egg blue eyes. ... (J.D. Holiday)

May the hope and the light glow today, May the glory of God, come all along May the wishes and desires be fulfilled Let me assume, the Power of God ... (Santosh Kalwar)

Menaphon: Your Majestie shall shortly have your wish, And ride in triumph through Persepolis. Tamburlaine: And ride in triumph through Persepolis? Is it not brave to be a King, Techelles? ... (Christopher Marlowe)

Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine so he could go back and see Jesus. It worked, and he saw ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

If you're good at this job, and I am, then every step in a murder case moves you in one direction: towards order. We get thrown shards of senseless wreckage, ... (Tana French)

All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders. ... (Sergei Lavrov)

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the ... (Fred Hampton)

I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while ... (Charles de Lint)

It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, ... (Terry Pratchett)

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. ... (Oprah Winfrey)

The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the ... (Charles Dickens)

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. ... (Peter Diamandis)

[But] we inherit a whole system of desires which do not necessarily contribute God's will but which, after centuries of usurped autonomy steadfastly ignore it. If the thing we like ... (C.S. Lewis)

I feel very blessed to have had the opportunities that have already come. I want to pursue it as long as I can find characters that resonate with me and ... (Sharlto Copley)

I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the ... (Karen Armstrong)

Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. ... (Peter Heller)

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart ... (Mark Twain)

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. ... (James Russell Lowell)

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens. ... (Augustine of Hippo)

The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me. ... (Heather O'Neill)