FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving. ... (Lauren Groff)

If you have not what you like, like what you have until you can change your environment. Do not waste your vitality in hating your life; find something in it ... (Orison Swett Marden)

I went to Africa to work. Finding myself and falling in love were not items on the agenda. Those were the stuff of daydreams, borne of long, icy Canadian winters. ... (Jacqueline L. Scott)

[Soho] is all things to all men, catering comprehensively for those needs which money can buy. You see it as you wish. An agreeable place to dine; a cosmopolitan village ... (P.D. James)

I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a better person, being more charitable, more ... (Vanessa L Ochs)

It does appear that in some other cultures the work of motherhood is not left entirely up to one person the way it is here, so a baby can be ... (Robin Barker)

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce ... (Raquel Cepeda)

At this time of day it should have been open and full of fifty fellow smackheads, crackheads, psychotics, epileptics, schizophrenics, self-harmers, beggars, buskers, car thieves, sherry pushers, ciderheads, just-released-that-morning convicts, ... (Alexander Masters)

Dex," she said. "Are you all right?" "I'll be fine, Sis," I said, feeling somewhat light-headed, "if you'll just turn off that horrible music. ... (Jeff Lindsay)

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that ... (Anthony Bourdain)

Our views of the natural are shaped by our ideas of the supernatural. ... (Jonathan Sacks)

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 ... (Miranda July)

Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values ... holds great promise to help American society better ... (George Mason)

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one ... (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Sometime it's really hardest things to keep yourself alone. ... (Anuj Kr. Thakur)

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money. ... (Will Rogers)

Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame. ... (Sia Furler)

Fame can take a toll on your personal life. Half of us were in short-lived marriages or not married at all. When you are doing something you love so much ... (Big Bank Hank)

What he had said to me a moment ago was true. I hadn't been listening to him, not for years. I'd wanted him to be better for so long that ... (Adam Haslett)

The hands-on approach takes an active interest on a very regular basis in the members' work. The hands-off approach trusts team members and recognizes their need for autonomy to carry ... (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam)

(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded? ... (Victor Borge)

The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You're just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage ... (Tracy McMillan)

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do. ... (Clarence Clemons)

Regardless of a patient's true motives to get out of bed, I always applaud on the inside. That's what physical therapy is all about. To get them out of bed. ... (Adele Levine)

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. ... (Calvin Trillin)

Who was your teacher? He hadn't studied with that teacher; he'd read the books. I didn't know the answer I was looking for when I asked the question, but I ... (Karen Maezen Miller)

There will always be individuals who give enthusiastic support for the use of force to solve all the problems of the world. The neoconservatives, though less influential today than a ... (Ron Paul)

This is how you know somebody loves you. When you can't tie your own shoes and they don't mind tying them for you. ... (Rose Christo)

Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin. ... (Manoj Vaz)

The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized ... (Ruth Reichl)