FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - ... (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and ... (Timothy Leary)

There will be ribbons in a range of colors with placings noted and records kept. Ribbons aren't worth much more than that; they're only a symbol. It's your partnership that ... (Anna Blake)

The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You ... (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training ... (Dalai Lama)

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him. ... (Bertolt Brecht)

Allahabad, that is, the City of God, one of the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of ... (Jules Verne)

Friendship is one mind in two bodies." Right. Until your BFF went out of her mind and after your ex-boyfriend's body. ... (Melissa Landers)

You're checking me out, aren't you?" He grins, and I swear he intentionally makes his stomach muscles tighten beneath the skin. "I am not checking you out. I'm just examining. ... (Nicole Williams)

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system. ... (Dorothy Day)

A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a ... (Eva Cox)

Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set? ... (Kate Forsyth)

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's ... (Pete du Pont)

Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or ... (Julian Fellowes)

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm. ... (Linda M. Godwin)

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge. ... (Doug Harvey)

Assuming a sentence rises into the air with the initial capital letter and lands with a soft-ish bump at the full stop, the humble comma can keep the sentence aloft ... (Lynne Truss)

From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this ... (Milan Kundera)

I raise a glass, to make a toast wishing everything good for you, so happy birthday for today and health and happiness too. ... (Susan Smith)

I have, and always will, respect people that keep it real no matter what. Most people say "Just keep it real with me," but the fact of the matter is ... (Stephanie Lahart)

Churches won't work with you, though, just out of the goodness of their hearts. They'll talk a good game-a sermon on Sunday, maybe, or a special offering for the homeless. ... (Barack Obama)

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day. ... (Oscar de la Renta)

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation. ... (Brian Tracy)

Pierce truly was a black witch. He had tried to kill with magic. It didn't matter if the charm was white, black, or polka dotted with silver sparkles. ... (Kim Harrison)

If I love you that'll always be the case, even if it's from the distance ... (Alexandra Elle)

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else. ... (Jurgen Moltmann)

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage. ... (Anthony Horowitz)

Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost. ... (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player. ... (Virender Sehwag)

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got ... (Stephen Covey)