FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Renunciation isn't a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It's simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass away, one after the other. Resisting this natural ... (Norman Fischer)

So tell me: were you born broken just like me, born hungry? Are we all of us born with some part of us missing? Are we each us born with ... (Gemma Files)

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's ... (Paul Houston)

What's so funny?" "You freak out when I disappear and reappear, but you expect me to stop time." She laughed, too. "But why can't you? You're a god." "Like I ... (Eva Pohler)

I take four or five heavy steps beyond the front door and Mom comes rushing down the hallway. "Shane! What in the hell-" Now she sees me, in all my ... (Ellen Hopkins)

As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon. ... (Maxwell Maltz)

If you were not cast into the abyss, you would have never groped, reached as far as you could reach, to grasp for anything that you could possibly touch, anything ... (C. JoyBell C.)

But that's life. That's your education. A series of opportunities and missed opportunities. Exams and grades and blue books and blue balls and majors and minors and liberal arts and ... (Ryan Quinn)

Pug said: "I'm trying to think of the best way of knocking you off." "The Chinese do it with rats," I said. "They let 'em eat the victim." "Where am ... (Jonathan Latimer)

Working with others makes us much more than we could ever become alone ... (John Wooden)

There is a part of me that no one ever sees. I hide behind a mask of heavy make-up and ever-changing hair and clothing. I try to reinvent myself. It ... (Julia Crane)

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up. ... (Florence Griffith Joyner)

But as nearly every denomination in the United States faces declining membership and waning influence, Christians may need to get used to the idea of measuring significance by something other ... (Rachel Held Evans)

Stop agreeing with everything I say! It's not as if you're going to solve everything by admitting your mistakes. Whether or not you admit then or not, mistakes are mistakes." ... (Haruki Murakami)

Avoiding moments of disillusionment ... I don't want dates on my calendar ... If it comes to love. I do not want to hear any more cute songs. I do ... (Jose N. Harris)

Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, ... (Taiichi Ohno)

While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. ... (Diana Gabaldon)

I don't know whether Asimov realized he was saying this as well, but as an old historical materialist, if only as an afterthought, he must have realized that he was ... (Samuel R. Delany)

Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums. ... (Nancy Byrd Turner)

So Captain Jack's come a-courtin'." Her hands stilled on the basket. "Who?" "The tall Shawnee who come by your cabin." The tall one. Lael felt a small surge of triumph ... (Laura Frantz)

People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable ... (Robin Williams)

At this point I feel I would be remiss to not mention the prevalence of a specific kind of person who enters the field of book publishing. This is the ... (Sloane Crosley)

SOUTH RICHMOND was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches - and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the ... (Tom Robbins)

My eyes roved over the walls covered with my collages and prints of famous paintings. Magritte, Kandinsky, Kahlo. My origami shapes hung from fishing wire, dangling over my bed. They ... (Heather Demetrios)

There is child abuse, and there are such things as repressed memories. But there are also such things as false memories and confabulations, and they are not rare at all. ... (Carl Sagan)

If our thoughts are going to affect what we become, then it should certainly be a priority that we think right thoughts. ... (Joyce Meyer)

She looked away and mumbled something. "I'm sorry I don't speak mumble," he said while eying the piping hot apple muffin with streusel topping that she just took out of ... (R.L. Mathewson)

One second, we are surrounded by angels holding their swords. The next second, one of their arms drops and his sword thunks to the grass like a lead weight. The ... (Susan Ee)

Want to be an AWESOME mom? TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF TAKE TIME FOR YOURSELF and REWARD YOURSELF Vent and cry if you need to. Say how you feel. Ask for ... (Tanya Masse)

He paused, wishing to embrace her, but feeling for the moment that he should not. Then, reaching into a waistcoat pocket, he took from it a thin gold locket, the ... (Theodore Dreiser)