FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old ... (Jack London)

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, ... (William F. Lynch)

Maybe physical intimacy isn't always about touching. Maybe it's also about being able to sit next to someone at dinner and not care if he takes something off your plate ... (Bart Yates)

I wish to try my hand at a novel," he said. "Just scribbling, I assure you, but it strikes me as such a noble art, requiring none of the monetary ... (Kyle Muntz)

For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next ... (David Sedaris)

For the senior officers in Iraq, at least in 2005-2006, the responsibility was to the men at the top, the media, the message, the public back home - anything and ... (Luis Carlos Montalvan)

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past ... (Ron Paul)

I wanted to earn a living wage and to see something nice about me in the 'New York Times.' I wanted my mother to be proud. I wanted all the ... (David Lipsky)

Forget the Bush family, they are the most negligible family in the country. They are unintelligent, they are reasonably decorative, they are obedient to the great economic powers. Nixon said ... (Gore Vidal)

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from ... (Nicolas Sarkozy)

Or," JB had continued, "you have to be so genuinely uncategorizable that the normal terms of identity don't even apply to you." JB had turned toward him, then, and he ... (Hanya Yanagihara)

Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are ... bland, tasteless. They'll never understand what it's like to read a poem and feel almost ... (Juliann Garey)

You know, something may be going down tonight, but it ain't going to be jobs, sweetheart. ... (Chris Christie)

Russell didn't reply. He was dumbstruck by ... (David Downing)

He ran his hand from my wrist up to the crook of my elbow and then to my shoulder. "When I was a little kid, my dad would come to ... (Laura Anderson Kurk)

See, if you said green bean, I'd be very upset. However, if you told her an eggplant, I'd probably never wear pants again. So what's it going to be, Jess? ... (Aly Martinez)

Wait: His boyfriend? He was gay? The focus on the lens sharpened, and I could see it clearly now. Of course he was gay. Everyone could see that, except the ... (Sarah Hepola)

A precise, detached calliper-grip holds the stars and the quarter- moon in arrest: ... (Adrienne Rich)

Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull ... (Michael Dirda)

I try to find more interesting material with each project I do. ... (Douglas Booth)

Once you realize you can make people laugh, it's a superpower. When you're really young, you don't know how to use that power, so I would just say the meanest ... (Nick Swardson)

Wordsworth also said that the best part of a person's life is "his little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love." I ... (Amy Poehler)

I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off. ... (Carla H. Krueger)

And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies. ... (Norman Vincent Peale)

Alone and friendless, what would be his lot in the strange land to which he was going? For a time Joseph gave himself up to uncontrolled grief and terror. But, ... (Ellen G. White)

I was singing before I could talk. ... (Shelby Lynne)

Diligence in prayer will envoke the supernatural. The angels are then activated through prayer. They go before you. They release the chains of depression, spiritual bondage. The effacey of Gods ... (Tarran Carter)

As a kid, I was taught that if you opened the Bible in the middle you'd probably land on the book of Psalms. And near the middle is everyone's favorite, ... (David Brazzeal)

He's the epitome of bad boy, if slightly older. He's hazardous, enigmatic and completely addictive. ... (Jodi Ellen Malpas)

Autumn is the best time of year. Maybe the worst for being a single girl of twenty-six, but in every other way, it's perfect. The best things come out of ... (Holly Hall)