FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

She leaned back a little in her chair and looked at me in silence for a considerable time. Finally she said, "Of all the banks, in all the world, you ... (Robert B. Parker)

But in fact I was like Ossie, in this one regard: I was consumed by a helpless, often furious love for a ghost. Every rock on the island, every swaying ... (Karen Russell)

The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You can take control. You can do something to ... (Judith Warner)

Change often brings unimagined opportunity ... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is ... (Syrie James)

Adversity could be an advantage in the future. To be a success, take the advantage of adversity whenever possible. ... (Debasish Mridha)

Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in ... (Eugenie de Guerin)

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the ... (Henry David Thoreau)

Came Honker's trip to Slice City along about then: our sax-man got a neck all full of the sharpest kind of steel. So we were out one horn. And you ... (Charles Beaumont)

Back and forth from Brooklyn to Manhattan. New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and ... (Melissa Febos)

Product Warning If this book were a medication with a label, it would read something like this: Side Effects Include but Are Not Limited to renewed sense of self-esteem increased ... (Stacy London)

If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals ... (Marvin J. Ashton)

The Bible is a record of sin, deceit, immorality of every kind, disobedience, hypocrisy and God's amazing grace and love. The heroes we admire were people just like us. They ... (Joyce Meyer)

I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true. ... (CC Sabathia)

I wished for Conrad on every birthday, every shooting star, every lost eyelash, every penny in a fountain was dedicated to the one I loved. ... (Jenny Han)

I'm an old man, and I'm no warrior. But during my years watching the rise and fall of those in power, I've learned that great men do not wait for ... (Ken Liu)

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give-and then realize that ... (Jodi Picoult)

"If it's a outside deal, how will I get my kids back?" Kit asked. "The Cabals have them." Chloe and Derek's heads both whipped Kit's way. "You're considering this?" Chloe ... (Kelley Armstrong)

The three boys, one dark, one light, and one - for lack of a better word - fiery, do not notice the night. Perhaps some part of them does, but ... (Patrick Rothfuss)

The inability of Americans to value intellect is, to me, maddening. If someone possesses physical beauty they will not be cloistered or hidden in dark shadows. No, they are expected ... (Stuart Rojstaczer)

This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call) ... (Larry McMurtry)

There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, ... (Adam Lindsay Gordon)

This is for those of you who have made mistakes, and who are brave enough to correct them, and wise enough to learn from them. ... (P.C. Cast)

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person ... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court. ... (Erich Segal)

Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine ... (Paul Davies)

You have no power over us, said the Auditor. We are notalive. BUT YOU ARE DEMONSTRATING ARROGANCE, PRIDE AND STUPIDITY. THESE ARE EMOTIONS. I WOULD SAY THEY ARE SIGNS OF ... (Terry Pratchett)

Finding your True Self really means being your true self because its who you really are! ... (James A. Sinclair)

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois. ... (Carla Bruni)

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. ... (William Shakespeare)

Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who believe such things are simple-minded creatures who have been lied to, and who easily accept ... (C. JoyBell C.)

A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics ... (Bernie Sanders)