FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult ... (Winston Churchill)

It feels as though there is a gaping hole in the middle of everything. The decades of my mother's life here with Thalia, they are dark, vast spaces to me. ... (Khaled Hosseini)

I think of relationships as having a really safe place with someone where you are, and making an effort to show up everyday - to see them and feel seen, ... (Maggie Grace)

I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it ... (Sanjay Dutt)

If you threw Elvis and a scarecrow in a blender, topped the whole thing off with Seagram's 7 and pressed dice, you would make my dad. He's got tar black ... (Andrea Portes)

I know not where we go from here. I do not think this is the end, but a new beginning, a new chapter in our tale. Told by minstrels who ... (Guy T. Simpson Jr.)

It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's ... (George Will)

Did you blame the men who fired the guns, the men who built the guns, or the men who invented the guys? Did you blame the men who had put ... (Kelly Braffet)

Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through ... (J. Maarten Troost)

A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages ... (Ruhollah Khomeini)

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird. ... (Evangeline Walton)

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal. ... (Paul Parker)

Time, That Is Pleased to Lengthen out the Day Time, that is pleased to lengthen out the day For grieving lovers parted or denied, And pleased to hurry the sweet ... (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

The most intriguing correlations obtained by the Minnesota study were also among the most unexpected. Social and political attitudes between twins reared apart were just as concordant as those between ... (Siddhartha Mukherjee)

Alone, her soul destroyed and her heart bereft and empty, the Lady Ninnia touched her amulet and closed her eyes. "No," she breathed, "I was wrong. This time, my wisdom ... (Robin Jarvis)

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot ... well it's not like people will forget you, but ... (Brian Boitano)

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. ... (Herman Melville)

It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who ... (Jaroslav Hasek)

Let these 2 quotes sink in. In tandem together. "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves as something to aim at." - Bruce Lee "Gentlemen, ... (Matthew Donnelly)

My friends knew that I was reading the Bible. First, the dean of the chapel took me out to lunch and shared his belief that the Old Testament was dispensable ... (Rosaria Champagne Butterfield)

The wolf stands on its hind legs, places its forelegs on the scientist's shoulders, and places its jaws around the scientist's head. This is just the wolf's way of being ... (Carl Sagan)

I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because ... (Margaret Chase Smith)

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education. ... (Andy Hargreaves)

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon. ... (Joan Van Ark)

As I glanced around my room, sliding my dinosaur back and forth on its chain, I though that maybe that was the point--that instead of happy endings, you get beginnings. ... (Meg Leder)

This time, the pathologist had a morgue assistant, a tall, skinny guy with glasses like airplane windows and a nimbus of brown hair, triple the height of Lyle Lovett's, and ... (Nina Post)

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of ... (T. S. Eliot)

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. ... (Azar Nafisi)

It's been a privilege to be here. ... (Paul Newman)