FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

He came back the next day, and the next, and the day after that, and they argued. The arguments always started about the binding itself, but then they began to ... (Diane Duane)

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires ... (John Ralston Saul)

Long before Eichmann's capture, Auerbach had conducted research on Operation 1005, the large-scale secret campaign to destroy evidence of the Final Solution by digging up the mass graves, pulverizing the ... (Deborah E. Lipstadt)

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My ... (Sylvia Plath)

Each day becomes as a learning environment that provides an unexpected teachings: . Everything you see is an opportunity to learn. . Every word you hear is an opportunity to ... (Euginia Herlihy)

It's funny how happiness can elude you for so long, and then you find out it's as easy as changing your mind." ---From "Hearts Reunited" (book 2 of the Law ... (Jeane Watier)

They maintain he wrote The Art of War. Personally, I believe it was a woman. On the surface, The Art of War is a manual about tactics on the battlefield, ... (Jo Nesbo)

How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and ... (Anne Roiphe)

Society nowadays tells people that their happiness is all that matters but happiness is never found if it costs someone else's theirs. That is not what happiness is, nor would ... (Donna Lynn Hope)

We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume ... (Thomas Jefferson)

One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for ... (Maria Shriver)

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul. ... (Voltaire)

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked. ... (L.M. Montgomery)

It never ceases to amaze me how many people think I kill for fun." "Don't you?" "Well, not just for fun. ... (Karen Chance)

The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of ... (Samuel Chadwick)

If you ever try to change my memories again, I will slap you into next spring." I took a breath, knees shaking as I felt small beside him, my white ... (Dawn Cook)

One of God's central qualities is compassion, a word that in Hebrew is related to the word for "womb." Not only is compassion a female image suggesting source of life ... (Marcus Borg)

He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand ... (C. JoyBell C.)

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say ... (Timothy Noah)

You still love him." "I love the boy he was. I could love the man, too. I don't know, and that's why I have to find out." "Oh, Aimee," she ... (Jane Harvey-Berrick)

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person. ... (Eric Butterworth)

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it. ... (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Life goes on, brah! ... (The Beatles)

There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason! ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

In April of 2006, the Church-owned Desert Morning News, in a remarkable week-long series on suicide in Utah, reported: "A former surgeon general who recently spoke in Utah about suicide ... (Carol Lynn Pearson)

All people said to genius people which now are famous. "That's a bad idea", "Wow you must be an idiot to do that", "How can you devastate your talant with ... (Deyth Banger)

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago! ... (Taylor Mali)

Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty. ... (Erin Kellison)

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail. ... (Alfonso Cuaron)

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. ... (Kiana Tom)