FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is ... (Noam Chomsky)

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job. ... (Marcia Wallace)

You remember how he used to be girl on either arm? You really don't see that guy too much anymore. Why do you think that is? He's waiting for you. ... (Richard Castle)

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. ... (William Shakespeare)

Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience ... (Philip Gourevitch)

Madge: I don't know why I keep shouting at them. The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks ... (Steven Moffat)

Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President. ... (George Galloway)

And therefore, I said, Glaucon, musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on ... (Plato)

Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise ... (Gautama Buddha)

Wait: His boyfriend? He was gay? The focus on the lens sharpened, and I could see it clearly now. Of course he was gay. Everyone could see that, except the ... (Sarah Hepola)

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. ... (Leslie Jamison)

To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its ... (A. Lee Martinez)

Just thought you should know," she said, winking. "Can I tell them to piss off?" "Oh sure," Jeth said, not nearly as amused by the situation as she was. "Just ... (Mindee Arnett)

Krishna preached in the midst of the battlefield. ... (Swami Vivekananda)

TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and soap operas. Besides, a TV-watching child was considered ... (Pete Hautman)

Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated! ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo ... (Farley Mowat)

Deadlines and daily dilemmas are stressful focus on solutions problems concerns don't sweat make best out of the moment. ... (Kishore Bansal)

Two of the most crucial principles used by the attentional filter are change and importance ... (Daniel J. Levitin)

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. ... (Theodore Levitt)

Question: You're 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing. ... (Imaj)

When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of ... (Mohamed ElBaradei)

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things. ... (John Wesley)

She wanted to find a loose thread in the twilight. Pull it. See what shined so brightly behind it, through the snags. ... (Ainslie Hogarth)

Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a ... (Marie Kondo)

No one was more stunned by the choice than her mother, who claimed to the saleswoman that she hadn't seen Danielle that dressed up since her first Communion. ... (Siobhan Vivian)

Alana, You once told me there'd come a day when I would regret making you marry me. I do regret it now, Alana, with all my heart. For tonight I've ... (Meagan McKinney)

Robots can now milk cows. Oil prices have fallen globally, meaning both the petro-states and those indirectly propped up by them are weakened. At the same time, slower growth in ... (Thomas L. Friedman)

You drink a language, you speak a language, and one day it owns you; ... (Kamel Daoud)

Bird boy kept us out there in the freezing rain while he yammered about the Red One this and Red One that. Darius got Zoey in here despite his help. ... (P.C. Cast)