FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it this brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here its like I'm someone else, I thought that maybe I ... (Miranda Lambert)

Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I can determine if being thankful is warranted or not. Rather, ... (Craig D. Lounsbrough)

When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you ... (Michael J. Fox)

I started to get nervous when people began posting, on the public newsgroups, plot suggestions for future books and speculation about how characters would develop. The Net is still new, ... (Anonymous)

The child cannot too early learn to be a good citizen? I think this is questionable: citizenship is an adult affair. Let school and home teach the child to respect ... (Clifton Fadiman)

The engineer and historian of engineering Henry Petroski presents a very elegant point. Had the Titanic not had that famous accident, as fatal as it was, we would have kept ... (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the ... (Alfred Nobel)

All the way back she talked haltingly about herself, and Amory's love waned slowly with the moon. At her door they started from habit to kiss good night, but she ... (F Scott Fitzgerald)

You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap," he said promptly. "Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, ... (Jim Butcher)

That's when I got the first real tingle of warning. Small, but serious. The smart thing to do would have been to simply end the call. No goodbyes, no polite ... (Jonathan Maberry)

And yet, for the fully modern being, not being able to tweet or otherwise " share" - feelings, opinions, thoughts, jokes, links to cat videos or pictures of dinner - ... (Christie Blatchford)

When people consider the trolley problem, here's what brain imaging reveals: In the footbridge scenario, areas involved in motor planning and emotion become active. In contrast, in the track-switch scenario, ... (David Eagleman)

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression. ... (Maria Alyokhina)

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one more demand: I expect the novelist to aspire ... (Edward Abbey)

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of ... (Michael J. Fox)

Human experience always contains both pain and joy. One of the reasons we can be confident that Christianity is actually true is it allows us to make sense of both ... (Holly Ordway)

As long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers. ... (Thomas Pynchon)

We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into ... (Rose George)

President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously he's not doing that well ... (Stephen Colbert)

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history. ... (Bernie Sanders)

Those who seek to glorify biblical womanhood have forgotten the dark stories. They have forgotten that the concubine of Bethlehem, the raped princess of David's house, the daughter of Jephthah, ... (Rachel Held Evans)

I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.' ... (Elizabeth Gilbert)

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills ... (Sophocles)

How arrogant we are, Adam thought, to deliver babies who can't walk or talk or feed themselves. How sure we are that nothing will destroy them before they can take ... (Maggie Stiefvater)

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people. ... (Terry Pratchett)

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us. ... (Louise Jameson)

He nuzzled her hair. "I've never been with a lady before. I don't know the rules." "Fortunately, I'm an unusual sort of woman. Mrs. Barrington did her best to change ... (Jennifer Ashley)

Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and innocent. It's not hardcore stripping so much as ... (Karen Abbott)

Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that? ... (Karen Marie Moning)

Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life. ... (Michael Adam Hamilton)