FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information. ... (Elizabeth Edwards)

Animal Farm is a warning to every reader. Beware the utopia; beware the perfect solution and the easy slogan; beware those who claim to know what is best for you; ... (George Orwell)

Hockey and cooking are similar in so many ways, especially if you are a player-coach, the guy in charge on the ice, a role I would closely relate to that ... (Chris Hill)

He would butcher it as soon as the weather was cold enough to keep the pork frozen. Once ... (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity! ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

By acknowledging a petty problem you give it existence and credibility. The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him; and a small mistake is often made ... (Robert Greene)

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too. ... (A.A. Milne)

Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion ... (Upton Sinclair)

Times were changing in the world of id. They had finally fired Jason, narrowing the group to Carmack, Romero, Adrian, and Tom. But something else was in the air. The ... (David Kushner)

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity - even ... (Viktor E. Frankl)

Please come back soon. The window is always open. ... (Elizabeth Wein)

I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you go to the movies. You know, ... (Pierce Brosnan)

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. ... (Ralph Marston)

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done. ... (Sheryl Sandberg)

He was seated on the bench now. He had his left elbow on his knee, his right arm across his lap, his shoulders hunched, his head bowed. White face, red ... (Juliet Marillier)

Before entering into any kind of intimate relationships, whether friendship, familial re-connection, or romance, the idea of "needing" or "being needed" must be eliminated. It's harmful to me and others. ... (Jennifer DeLucy)

If you're paying attention, if your eyes and your ears and your mind are open, as they should be open. You can know and then, critically, hold on to that ... (Jean Hanff Korelitz)

A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires thwart your progress, but Mind, ... (Morihei Ueshiba)

The Assault Guards had one submachine-gun between ten men and an automatic pistol each; we at the front had approximately one machine-gun between fifty men, and as for pistols and ... (George Orwell)

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. ... (Robert Motherwell)

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights. ... (Alexander Chee)

I've been careful what I've put my name to. ... (Evangeline Lilly)

In East Bangor, Pennsylvania (population 800), there's a little diner named for the trolley that used to take people to the once-bustling steel town of Bethlehem. The proprietors have adorned ... (Anthony M. Esolen)

Some times we need to work hard to get the JOB done ... (Sarvesh)

And then, inside me, the axis of time gave one great heave. ... (Haruki Murakami)

There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today. ... (Jan Chipchase)

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. ... (Larry Wall)

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility ... (Mohamed Mohamed Adel)

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people. ... (Anne Tyler)

Some primary reasons that both Plato and Aristotle had for believing in God were utterly erroneous - simple errors caused by our being stuck to the planet and misled by ... (Jennifer Michael Hecht)