FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she ... (Lily Rabe)

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history. ... (Gary Chapman)

Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if ... (Umberto Eco)

It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. ... (David Chiles)

I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man ... (Jill Scott)

Possibly, mrs. laird ... i'd say. except he's dead, you see. well, not completely dead. he's more of a resurrected god. he judges mortal spirits and feeds the hearts of ... (serpent's shadow Rick Riordan)

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. ... (Dean Koontz)

You have to free your brain to roam to places that are a little impractical, and innovation consultants have come up with some great ways to encourage that. One of ... (Amanda Lang)

The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ. ... (Ann Voskamp)

This two-bit bar, this worn-out town, just a speck in the middle of a lonely grassy prairie with the stony hills beyond, the small fix-it-yourself house I'd bought for us ... (Cat Porter)

It is in the face of all this visual chaos, so opposed to order and simplicity, that I suddenly, perhaps a little guiltily, recall my vow to simplify my life. ... (Guy Vanderhaeghe)

I have never met a simple man. Not even in the confessional, though I used to sit there for hours on end. Man was not created simple. When I was ... (Graham Greene)

Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean. ... (Joseph Murray)

You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. ... (Leif Enger)

So many aspects of nature restore the soul, but for me, being on the water is the most cleansing. ... (Ashley Farley)

But this brings me back to my nagging question. I had notebooks filled with potential missions, yet I had resisted devoting myself to any one in particular. And I'm not ... (Cal Newport)

Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well. ... (William Shakespeare)

Did she not get it? He'd done everything but hit her on the head and drag her into a cave. ... (Lilith Saintcrow)

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater. ... (Claire Forlani)

The truth that there is an infinite, eternal, and personal mind behind the realities of the universe that can be detected through human reflection is the most transformative Christian apologetics ... (Kenneth Samples)

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story ... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about ... in the early days of testing ... (Val Guest)

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. ... (George Washington)

I grew up thinking the only scriptures on earth were those inspired by the Hebrew prophets of the Old Testament, the words and letters of Jesus and his apostles, and ... (S. Michael Wilcox)

The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already ... (Hugh MacLeod)

When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, ... (Jonny Greenwood)

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own ... (Terence McKenna)

Once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder. ... (George r r martin)

Iker has never stopped being one of the best goalkeepers in the world. For me, Iker is a top goalkeeper and has never not been. ... (Cristiano Ronaldo)

I sort through piles of sheets with gloved hands. The dirties are brought down by orderlies, morenas mostly. I never see the sick; they visit me through the stains and ... (Junot Diaz)

The reader, knowing nothing about the 'dark continent,' filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot providing the only light, elephants stampeding ... (Abraham Verghese)