FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

If you love someone, you will want to understand them and accept them as they grow and change; similarly, loving yourself involves a never-ending process of self-understanding and self-acceptance through ... (Brian McLaren)

When the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never on any occasion said a word to the ... (Thomas Jefferson)

The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator. ... (Elaine Orabona Foster)

I don't know why one person gets sick, and another does not, but I can only assume that some natural laws which we don't understand are at work. I cannot ... (Harold S. Kushner)

Christmas has a dark side. It's painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was ... (Toni Sorenson)

I'm like a point guard. Barack is about ideas and questions, and I don't have all the answers. He trusts me to pass the ball to others to give him ... (Mark Lippert)

You have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you, because the present may be all you've got. ... (Amanda Howells)

Taking a shaky breath, I spoke. "Well, recently, I learned how much my words affect people, even if it's just one word. ... (Darcy Ridge)

Alan shook his head. Jeremy was hopeless. Either he'd find an equally soft-headed girl and they'd live happily ever after like two cooing doves, or he'd be eaten alive by ... (Bonnie Dee)

But we must be careful not to do our enemies' work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we ... (Robert Harris)

Never harbor regrets. Such useless emotions detract from an avowed purpose. Spare neither tears nor sentiment, which sap strength and energy. Rather, shake the dust of encumbering people and places ... (Mary Daheim)

I am constantly asked: What can you, with your cold rationalism, offer to the seeker after salvation that is comparable to the cozy homelike comfort of a fenced-in dogmatic creed? ... (Bertrand Russell)

If a guy who you just met at a club calls you baby, sweetheart, angel, or any other generic endearment? Don't make the mistake of thinking he's so into you, ... (Emma Chase)

Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism ... we are not truly materialist because we fail to invest deep or sacred meanings ... (Juliet B. Schor)

I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just ... (John B. S. Haldane)

But I want him to live if he wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me - no matter how much we love ... (Jojo Moyes)

It was nice meeting you, Lily Bloom. I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours." I ... (Colleen Hoover)

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably. ... (Yann Martel)

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in ... (James Boswell)

Adam Brown's zest for life led him down a few dark alleys and more than one dead end. Kind-hearted and wild, Adam led a life that lacked direction. God, a ... (Stu Weber)

An obvious example of this reverse causation would be pregnant women, who are driven to fatten by hormonal changes. This hormonal drive induces hunger and lethargy as a result. In ... (Gary Taubes)

Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the "irresponsibility" of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when compared to life, because it is first and ... (James Wood)

The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary with age, enfeebled, dry. So more the things remain the same, the more they change after all. ... (John Knowles)

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short. ... (Prince William)

Wake up every morning and tell yourself you're a badass bitch from hell and that no one can fuck with you and then don't let anybody fuck with you. ... (Unknown)

It was on a van ride home from the movie set that everything came together. I realized I had to get off Twitter. It just struck me that I couldn't ... (Nick Offerman)

I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while ... (Amy Poehler)

Or perhaps it was the crying woman's mention of the unread library books, because truly there was nothing sadder, except a gift that a person has hand made for you, ... (Heidi Julavits)

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd ... ... (Irene Nemirovsky)

Just got a new car - got a little Miata convertible. Pretty happy about it, except for one thing: I'm 6-foot-6, so now I look like a McDonald's toy. ... (Brian Posehn)