FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... ... (Wallace Stegner)

My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my deserting you, unless you give me cause.' I ... (Charles Dickens)

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you. ... (Iris Murdoch)

The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love without any acumen of normalcy. There is no "normal," because everyone is being twisted ... (Chuck Klosterman)

Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, ... (Lauren Oliver)

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes ... (James Altucher)

Defries was forced to cancel dates in Dallas and Houston because of weak advance sales. ... (Christopher Sandford)

DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o'clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor orphan! My room will be his quarters hereafter. ... (Mark Twain)

We could scan each car for terrorists and lovers she could lean into my camouflage her head resting on woven trees. When they come for her body she could run ... (Jalina Mhyana)

Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead. ... (Mokokoma Mokhonoana)

Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral ... (John Webster)

The killing of a police officer has a ripple effect across the nation, even the world. It's like the wave at a ballgame but you can't see it if you ... (Karen Rodwill Solomon)

The environment most realistically capable of giving rise to life, whether here or anywhere else in the universe, is alkaline hydrothermal vents. Such vents constrain cells to make use of ... (Nick Lane)

I am going to untie your feet first," Dimitri told the girl, "but if you try to run, I will kill you." "Do you have a gun?" she asked, trying ... (Jaden Wilkes)

A fertile, open mind is like a sponge. Every individual, event and episode in one's life is a learning experience. It's up to you what you want to emulate; the ... (Pratima Kapur)

The shape of her head and the turn of her neck and bust were peculiarly noble, and the long golden-brown hair that floated like a cloud around it, the deep ... (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround ... (Cecelia Ahern)

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, ... (Ibrahim Rugova)

They are not looking because of the way you are dressed, Danny. The women are looking at you with envy. They are wondering how a woman of my age can ... (Rachel de Vine)

We're not meant to be alone. We're made with holes inside our souls. The only way to survive is to fill them. ... (Ella James)

It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all the way. [ ... ] ... (Jan Gustafsson)

Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever. ... (Gaius Marius)

Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about ... (Kleber Mendonca Filho)

I cannot stress enough the perils of your friends marrying or becoming court inventors. One day you are all a society of outlaws, adventurous comrades and companions who will be ... (Tove Jansson)

Raimon Casellas is the writer (not Raimoun) Alan Yates the translator Eva Bosch the editor ... (Casellas Raimoun Yates Alan)

Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus ... (Eberhard Arnold)

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions ... (Diana Peterfreund)

Rub your eyes, and look again at love, with love. ... (Rumi)

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man. ... (Aristotle.)

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union ... (Linda Chavez)