FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most superficial comparison shows one obvious difference: aeroplane engines use outside air to burn their ... (Henry Spencer)

The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power ... (Simon Tam)

There exist concretely alarm clocks, signboards, tax forms, policemen, so many guard rails against anguish. But as soon as the enterprise is held at a distance from me, as soon ... (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Acts of psychological abuse include berating or humiliating the victim; interrogating the victim; restricting the victim's ability to come and go freely; obstructing the victim's access to assistance (e.g., law ... (Donald W. Black)

Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead. So the belief that remembering is ... (Susan Sontag)

I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to ... (Eva LaRue)

There is absolutely no experience, however terrible, or heartbreaking, or unjust, or cruel, or evil, which you can meet in the course of your earthly life, that can harm you ... (Hannah Hurnard)

This is where dad burried the little raccoon. I don't even know he existed a few days ago and now he's gone forever. It's like I found him for no ... (Bill Watterson)

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be. ... (Harold Warner)

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. ... (Charles Mackay)

Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts. ... (Laurence J. Peter)

Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster. ... (William Shakespeare)

Spirituality exist in testing and experiencing the depth of inner peace consistently. ... (Amit Ray)

I was exceedingly affected, says he, upon the occasion. But was ashamed to be surprised by her into such a fit of unmanly weakness-so ashamed that I was resolved to ... (Samuel Richardson)

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country. ... (Dana Hussein)

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end. ... (Bertrand Russell)

I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids ... trying to be a father, at ... (Loudon Wainwright III)

For too long some of our schools have taught too many subjects as subsets of dogmatic commitments ... Too often, education made our students less flexible- confident to the point ... (His Highness the Aga Khan)

Protector and destroyer were two sides of the same coin. Who knew which one would come out in a toss-up? ... (Mina Khan)

For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men ... (Socrates)

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered? ... (Sandra Cisneros)

You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love. ... (Truth Devour)

I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in public schools, given our Constitutional ... (Gerald R. Ford)

The romantic reunion and thank-you-for-saving-my-life sex would have to wait until later. ... (Jennifer Estep)

I'm as American as Chevrolet. ... (Whoopi Goldberg)

There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have ... (John McCain)

Do you somehow think that terrorizing a middle schooler is going to give you some street cred? It's just going to make you look like a witch," he said. "Or ... (Lily Harper Hart)

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life ... (Huey Newton)

Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer. ... (Wendy Greuel)

Be clean and get clean. ... (Anup Kumar)