FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how ... (Elizabeth Debold)

What is your definition of skank?' I ask. 'A skank fucks skeezas she barely knows. ... (Megan McCafferty)

I had crossed fifty years of my life, and come across uncountable females as son, husband, father, friend in my life. Coming across several women I carefully studied most of ... (Nutan Bajracharya)

To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is ... (Kristen Stewart)

Breakin down the weed about to make a plane, a hundred niggas wit me all reppin taylor gang. ... (Wiz Khalifa)

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort. ... (Craig D. Lounsbrough)

The gospel of Jesus Christ opens the path to what we may become. ... (D. Todd Christofferson)

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. ... (Dean Smith)

The tethering of words to reality helps allay the worry that language ensnares us in a self-contained web of symbols. ... (Steven Pinker)

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must ... (Jacques Derrida)

God is preparing you for greater things. He's going to take you further than you thought possible, so don't be surprised when He asks you to think better of yourself ... (Joel Osteen)

You can see right away,' the old man said, 'that he hates us but hides his hatred under a layer of sycophancy. They all hate us. How could they not? ... (Amos Oz)

I'm telling you, go hook up. It isn't like you'll ever see him again. Fun Florida Fling. Ha-ha, the three Fs!" I want to laugh, but I shake my head. ... (Toni Aleo)

I just kind of dive in if I think I can create something that will make a difference and then try to get the numbers to stack up after the ... (Richard Branson)

The singing wasn't the hopscotch-jumprope-happy kind. This was the kind of singing that, if you tracked it to its source, you might find a little girl in a moldy old ... (Dean Koontz)

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence. ... (James Wolfe)

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. ... (Confucius)

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living. ... (Craig Ferguson)

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more. ... (Nora Raleigh Baskin)

At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine ... (Bill Gates)

She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper ... (Julia Gregson)

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments ... And it is time for people ... (Leo Tolstoy)

I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse. ... (Holly Goldberg Sloan)

It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added) ... Hindsight plays tricks on our ... (Jeremy Siegel)

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual. ... (Ben Harper)

Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love. ... (Gary Chapman)

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. ... (Jon Katz)

They just change. Their body changes. Their abilities - the things they do that make them who they are - leave, sometimes temporarily, sometimes forever. Every day they wake up ... (Lindsey Leavitt)

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared? ... (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

With the countless chevrons of whitecaps. Soon enough, the navigators can discern the low moonlit lumps of islands ranged along the horizon. France. ... (Anthony Doerr)