FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different ... (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

What does it do?" said Loeser. "You feel as if you're being sucked down this fathomless, gloomy tunnel. Or to put it another way, it's as if all the different ... (Ned Beauman)

I don't make any pretence of knowing about the existence of a Supreme Entity, neither do I make any attempt to create any friction among religions. If anything, I have ... (Abhijit Naskar)

Many religious liberals today seem to think that different people can believe in different mutually exclusive things without any of them being wrong, as long as their beliefs "work for ... (Christopher Hitchens)

I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to ... (Benny Goodman)

[T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats on [her] feminine radar. ... (Thomm Quackenbush)

I hope our paths will cross again." "Really? In that case, I guess I'll keep following you." She regretted the joke for half a breath before Kai laughed. A real ... (Marissa Meyer)

Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of ... (Rachel Caine)

There's a reason for the word heartbeat not be called beat of heart. The perfect woman only needs a good beat. The heart will follow. Emotions, when put in equilibrium ... (Robin Sacredfire)

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and ... (Sherman Alexie)

Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on ... (Buzz Aldrin)

After six months in the academy, trainees learn to: Respect the chain of command and their place on the bottom of that chain. Sprinkle "sir" and "ma'am" into casual conversation. ... (Peter Moskos)

A vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks butts of children. ... (John Green)

Hey, I'll have you know, that I have been going commando since my first wedgie in grade five; once they grab for underwear, and don't find any, they get very ... (Kim Cormack)

People need to be given enough so that they feel like they're not missing something. There's a thing that you have when you watch a movie where, if you feel ... (Mark Waters)

Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death, The noise was high. Ha! No more moving? Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were 't good? I think ... (William Shakespeare)

Pull-heavy, right-handed hitters should also have seen shifts, but rarely did. According to BIS's database, the first shift employed against a right-handed hitter in the modern era didn't occur until ... (Travis Sawchik)

She found herself stepping into ritual as if into a pair of stone shoes. ... (Margaret Atwood)

Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness ... (David McRaney)

Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild. ... (Kathie Lee Gifford)

Family is the garden of humanity where every flower grows with love and kindness, in search of beauty, purpose and happiness. ... (Debasish Mridha)

I know how it wears on a soul. How it eats little pieces of your heart at unexpected times. How you can go whole weeks happily occupied, feeling no melancholy ... (Tessa Dare)

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last. ... (P.D. James)

The belief that there is a difference between good and bad, meaningful and meaningless, profound and vapid, exciting and banal - this belief was once fundamental to musical education. But ... (Roger Scruton)

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude. ... (Oprah Winfrey)

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. ... (Paul Cezanne)

I'm the guy who checks the weather report every day hoping for a thunderstorm. ... (J. Tonzelli)

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. ... (Kurt Cobain)

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying ... (Roberto Unger)

I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and ... (Joe Haldeman)