FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for. ... (Henry Home)

III But may I, when alone again I have the city's crush and tangled noise-skein and the furor of its traffic all around me, may I above the mindless swirl ... (Rainer Maria Rilke)

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot ... (John Callahan)

Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!' ... (Craig Ferguson)

When you always stay positive, you least worry yourself over anything at all! You only take lessons from negative moments of life, and people who seek to change your positive ... (Ernest Agyemang Yeboah)

Guilt and shame are both emotions of self-evaluation; however, that is where the similarities end. The majority of shame researchers agree that the difference between shame and guilt is best ... (Brene Brown)

Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life ... (Ann Voskamp)

The more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator God, who designed the universe for a purpose, gains in credibility as ... (John C. Lennox)

I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life. ... (Maggie Cheung)

You're scared," he said quietly. "Scared?" I scoffed. "Of what?" "Of anything real. And what we have is real. You love me and it terrifies you." "I don't love you," ... (Sophie Jordan)

You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the ... (H. Beam Piper)

The man I picture in my mind is someone ordinary like me. Maybe he's wearing glasses, maybe he's not so handsome, but it's how he loves me that's extraordinary. It ... (Marian Tee)

Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density. ... (Anthony Albanese)

I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to ... (Philippe Perrin)

I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a ... (Elana Meyers)

Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that had bunny wallpaper ... and ... (Mary Cantwell)

The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome ... (Daisaku Ikeda)

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling ... (Lauren Weisberger)

I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, ... (Sergei Bubka)

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so ... (Bob Proctor)

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn ... (Jeff Goodell)

As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested ... (Tony Trischka)

When you open an Apple product it's like a religious experience. ... (Lee Clow)

Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are. ... (Jeremy Clarkson)

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity. ... (Boethius)

Because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms. ... (Mary Roberts Rinehart)

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. ... (Ella Maillart)

Social media: the promise of friends at the price of friendship. ... (Matthew Keefer)

Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten ... (Edgar Allan Poe)

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong. ... (Tara Brach)