FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing ... (Martin Luther King Jr.)

The wondrous God is with us in stormy waters. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

But if love is a human sickness and a mental weakness, it must not be blamed as mistake, but claimed as misfortune. ... (Gorgias of Leontini)

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand. ... (Jeff Smith)

God's law reveals the way in which our world and our souls were designed. To disobey God's law is always bad for the beloved. Therefore, real love is concerned about ... (Timothy Keller)

LOVE OF THE GOD" "Love has power, power of Devine It fills meaning of one life, Love is the gift, Gift that gets of fortune, Rather you aren't going for, ... (Samar Sudha)

There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and ... (Sam Abell)

And it came out that this King Arthur and his knights had done nothing of real note but to kill innocent dragons all around Britain: almost certainly a pack of ... (Naomi Novik)

A BIRTHDAY Something continues and I don't know what to call it though the language is full of suggestions in the way of language but they are all anonymous and ... (W.S. Merwin)

Oh, grassy glades! oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye, though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life, in ye, men yet may roll, ... (Herman Melville)

This man was a rogue, not because circumstances forced him to be a criminal but because he was born that way. He was probably conning his mother out of her ... (Ilona Andrews)

That's all books are. Escapism borne of wonderfully crafted words that describe far off lands. Sentences that ask and answer within seconds. Paragraphs that slay dragons and ride horses into ... (Emma Hart)

It is not enough to hear a sermon, but you must eat it down, take in what it commands, and then it will purge your heart ... Take the word ... (Thomas Goodwin)

The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida. ... (Zalmay Khalilzad)

I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty that I recognize ... (Louis Schwartzberg)

Anyone who doubts the subjective flexibility of time should spend an afternoon walking through a minefield. ... (Gregory H. Murry)

Who the fuck are you?" Pacifico barked. "I'm John, Earl Breedlove's younger brother." "Do you know who I am?" "Yeah, I know. You're the motherfucker who tortured and killed my ... (Billy Wells)

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free. ... (Ralph Marston)

It takes a heap of living to make a house a home ... (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too ... (Gertrude Atherton)

Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some ... (M. Scott Peck)

Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided ... (Mike Schmidt)

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you. ... (Ralph Lauren)

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. ... (Horace Walpole)

Why, aren't you just about as sweet as syrup on a sundae? I sure would appreciate that, ma'am." He winked. "How'd you like ta stroll the deck of this fine ... (Colleen Houck)

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. ... (Ella Harris)

The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control ... Good writing ... explodes ... (Joy Williams)

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason. ... (Paul Fussell)

A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will ... (Oswald Chambers)

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas. ... (Marcel Wanders)