FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

But when you get down to it, it's all a lie. You sit here writing and writing, but no one can see it - that's arrogant, I told you so ... (Doris Lessing)

The temptation to hide in his job, to allow all his thoughts and emotions to become absorbed in the details of his career was hard to resist. It felt like ... (Pamela Morsi)

Been rounded up during a raid.2 We were lucky: Our neighbors, who were good people, had a key to our house, and they took everything they could carry and hid ... (Marcel Prins)

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that ... (Karin Slaughter)

A case could be made that even the shift into R&D on information technologies and medicine was not so much a reorientation towards market-driven consumer imperatives, but part of an ... (David Graeber)

Valuing other people's time starts with valuing your own. ... (Robert J. Braathe)

Are we entirely ready, sir?" said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means "We are not entirely ready, sir." "We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words ... (Terry Pratchett)

As we rolled down the Million Dollar Highway, I closed my eyes and held him close around the waist, and he squeezed my hand like it was forever, like we'd ... (Sarah Ockler)

CG Jung:Thoughts grow in me like a forest, populated by many different animals. But man is domineering in his thinking, and therefore he kills the pleasure of the forest and ... (C. G. Jung)

Every experience I'd ever had with a guy had changed me in some way. Whether it was a single idea, or an altered view, I was never quite the same ... (J. Sterling)

Fiction ... It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins. ... (Shauna Singh Baldwin)

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. ... (Don Marquis)

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. ... (Guillermo del Toro)

To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, ... (Masao Abe)

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction ... (Seamus Heaney)

This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the best possible good, but on the least possible ... (Geoffrey Wood)

If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail. ... (Terry Pratchett)

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. ... (William Styron)

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. ... (Benjamin Spock)

As the eclipse progresses, a confusion of chattering birds sweeps low in search of dusk and their shadows skip over the water's surface and it makes perfect sense that these ... (John Pipkin)

So that your deeds of charity may be in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret will reward you openly. ... (Anonymous)

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila. ... (John Grisham)

The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night. ... (Heinrich Heine)

I suppose I do not on the whole greatly admire the 'Tortoises' of this world. While one may appreciate their plodding steadiness and ability to survive, one suspects their lack ... (Kazuo Ishiguro)

I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing ... (Vinny Testaverde)

In the Gospel story we find five great points of special importance; the birth, the life on earth, the death, the resurrection, and the ascension. In these we have what ... (Andrew Murray)

The ocean is a beast. A beast that doesn't care if it chews you up or swallows you whole. A beast you cannot beat - you can only dance with ... (Alessandra Torre)

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment. ... (Susanna Kearsley)

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who ... (Frederick Buechner)

Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. ... (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)