FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive ... (Lenny Kravitz)

To the degree that the British right hand didn't know what the left was doing, it was because a select group of men at the highest reaches of its government ... (Scott Anderson)

I should have asked, I guess," he says. "I shouldn't have assumed." "What?" He rotates around on his butt to face me. Me on the sofa, him on the floor, ... (Rick Yancey)

You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't ... (Kristan Higgins)

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed ... (F. Sionil Jose)

I hate that I got dealt shitty parents! I hate how you make me feel like scum! I hate that you're always running away from me! And I hate that ... (Adriana Law)

People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams. ... (Anne Rice)

I would always drink purple drink - syrup. I would just be in a room, screwing and chopping up music. It was like an alter ego - I would turn ... (SpaceGhostPurrp)

Where is his father? When will his mother be home? How is he going to explain the moon taken hostage, the sea risen to fill up all the mirrors? How ... (Li-Young Lee)

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact ... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest ... (Henry David Thoreau)

Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous! ... (Denise Van Outen)

Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are ... (Oren Lyons)

One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is compassion a female image suggesting source of life ... (Marcus Borg)

In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead. ... (G.R. Elton)

If you were to succeed in prolonging the deliriously ecstatic puppy-dog love stage of the first months of courtship through-out the entire relationship itself-through marriage, unto death-would this same love, ... (Courtney Maum)

I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding. ... (Marlen Esparza)

In defeat, look at the stars; in victory, look at the ground! From the stars, you get hope; from the ground, you get caution. ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets Got a new condo moving to the beach Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib Got damn ... (Drake)

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. ... (Seneca the Younger)

Every job I was denied for ... opened the door to new opportunities. Every relationship that hurt me ... led me to my true love. Every mistake I thought would ... (Steve Maraboli)

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be ... (Dave Barry)

Just as it was necessary to reinflate my lungs to overcome pneumonia, I needed the breath of God to help me overcome the depression of my spirit. I ... (Don Piper)

I retired once but you've got to have something to retire to and I don't want to do anything. My job is like a well paid hobby, I mean not ... (Ozzy Osbourne)

The leprous corpse, touch'd by this spirit tender, Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath; Like incarnations of the stars, when splendour Is chang'd to fragrance, they illumine death And ... (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having ... (Marissa Jaret Winokur)

I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Australian colleagues in the industry as well as find things that ... (Lucy Fry)

I stumble and fall. I weep and struggle to rise. My mom feels it all. ... (Richelle E. Goodrich)

[Lear] is the universal image of the unwisdom and destructiveness of paternal love at its most ineffectual, implacably persuaded of its own benignity, totally devoid of self-knowledge, and careening onward ... (Harold Bloom)

Anyone could buy a green Jaguar, find beauty in a Japanese screen two thousand years old. I would rather be a connoisseur of neglected rivers and flowering mustard and the ... (Janet Fitch)