FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the ... (Plato)

Hunger limits you because you are constantly thinking about getting food, keeping the food if you do get your hands on some, and not knowing when you are going to ... (Saroo Brierley)

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development ... (Kofi Annan)

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off. ... (Chuck Yeager)

It wasn't easy telling my family that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, 'Mom, would you please pass the ... (Bob Smith)

Girls, here's the truth about the Ban Bossy campaign: It's being spearheaded by a privileged group of elite feminists who have a very vested interest in stoking victim politics and ... (Michelle Malkin)

John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, ... (Rupert Murdoch)

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and ... (Nelson Algren)

Carl Jung never said: "There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does ... (C. G. Jung)

An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love ... (Rumi)

What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing permeated the ... (Howard Zinn)

Still, a thrill raced through her when she thought about the one thing she would have. Camille wrapped her arms around Oscar's waist and held him, breathing in his distinctive ... (Angie Frazier)

This is not just about bumblebees, but about creating a future environment for our children to enjoy, where there are still flowers, bees, butterflies and birds, and healthy crops to ... (Dave Goulson)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. ... (Bertrand Russell)

Get a load of this, Frank." Gerald Peyton's pause set off his pronouncement. "She is expecting to get a wedding ring." "That's understandable," I said, unsure how he could afford ... (Ed Lynskey)

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow ... (Gail Collins)

I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a ... (Jeff Buckley)

You're a projectionist and you're tired and angry, but mostly you're bored so you start by taking a single frame of pornography collected by some other projectionist that you find ... (Chuck Palahniuk)

I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the ... (Heidi Klum)

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, ... (Edward Thomas)

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I ... (Helena Bonham Carter)

We took the path that led others nowhere and only we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They warned us about the monsters we would encounter, the ... (Akshay Vasu)

Whatever clunks your cowbell, ... (Rick Riordan)

Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life. The American ... (Ari Fleischer)

In short, the foundation of the Kingdom of God is based upon harmony and love, oneness, relationship and union, not upon differences, especially between husband and wife. If one of ... (Abdu'l- Baha)

You don't ever know how happy you are until you remember how sad you once were and vice versa. Nothing is anything until I decide to hold nothing next to ... (Andrea Seigel)

Her grave is in Brocklebridge Churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now a gray marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed ... (Charlotte Bronte)

A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole - this refers to a difference ... (Zhuangzi)

Your attitude determines how you experience the world. ... (Sanaya Roman)