FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't ... (Lily Tomlin)

When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we ... (J. Brent Bill)

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality. ... (Terence Stamp)

In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even ... (Francis A. Schaeffer)

Those who served both the Almighty and secular lords did their best to follow Jesus's teachings and render unto Caesar the things which were Caesar's, and unto God the things ... (Sharon Kay Penman)

I need to give you one last bit of advice in the off chance this rather extraordinary and enviable situation in which you find yourself is actually true- that somehow ... (Marisha Pessl)

Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in every ... (Mike Posner)

You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love ... In short, one might simply say: save your kisses you ... (Bruce C. Hafen)

Gates loved competing- and winning. Just as importantly, he hated losing. He thrived on competition, as long as he was playing or doing something he was good at, and relished ... (James Wallace)

Often when a woman exhibits leadership, she's accused of having that Jezebel spirit. I look forward to the day when women with leadership and insight, gifts and talents, callings and ... (Sarah Bessey)

Two people rarely see the same thing. ... (Agatha Christie)

The emotion called love occurs in one's body and it is under the control of another person. The other person can cause it to occur at any time. ... (Larry Mickelson)

Then why don't you and Bubba have girlfriends? (Nick) I don't want the drama of it. After the last one burnt up all my clothes with my Jack Daniel's Black ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

In the state of grace, there is no such thing as opportunity lost that cannot be found. ... (David Jeremiah)

Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if ... (Umberto Eco)

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what ... (Catherynne M Valente)

Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don't accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who ... (Edward Feser)

There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is ... (Ludwig von Mises)

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the ... (Asa Gray)

Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in ... (Georgia Heard)

He leaned in toward her, and as he gave her a hug said Give Cora a kiss from me. He said it the same way he gave her the hug, ... (Yuri Herrera)

Anyone wishing to buy the film rights for a rather large sum can contact my publisher and anyone wishing to put me in the top 100 wealthiest people in the ... (James Berryman)

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, ... (Elizabeth Smart)

In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it. ... (S. Jay Olshansky)

The ultimate message of this book, though, is not that should strive for publication, but that you should become devoted to the craft of writing, for its own sake. Ask ... (Noah Lukeman)

Mong the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her than the influence of ... (Wilkie Collins)

September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane ... (Jean Hersey)

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of ... (Robert Henri)

Wilde stepped off the train in Oakland wearing a Spanish sombrero, a velvet suit, a puce cravat, yellow gloves, and buckled shoes, and wended his way across the bay to ... (Kevin Starr)

Jake assumed that he would be the one to die. Marco had seen this instantly. He wasn't arguing in favor of the awful future we'd seen. He was arguing for ... (K.A. Applegate)