FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Angela Carter ... refused to join in rejecting or denouncing fairy tales, but instead embraced the whole stigmatized genre, its stock characters and well-known plots, and with wonderful verve and ... (Marina Warner)

Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose ... (John Stuart Mill)

I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed in solving their problems fairly and efficiently at ... (Peace Pilgrim)

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation. ... (J.K. Rowling)

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. ... (John F. Kennedy)

When he could wait no longer, he levered his body over hers and entered her, his heavy shaft spreading her deliciously, pushing deep. The sway of the train rocked them ... (Lisa Kleypas)

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry ... (J.K. Rowling)

You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't ... (Kristan Higgins)

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your ... (John Wesley)

Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH. ... (Vikrmn)

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action. ... (Raya Dunayevskaya)

A formal period in life where there isn't the worry of another person's dramas and insecurities can be of great advantage, especially when used for growing into the full and ... (Nityananda Das)

Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal. ... (A.C. Grayling)

Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished ... (David)

You can't imagine how much I hated middle school. Remember the way people would look at you blankly and say, "Um, okaaay," after you finished talking? Everyone just had to ... (Becky Albertalli)

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, ... (Ursula K. Le Guin)

He that is with the King, is not alone, though forsaken by all others. He on whom the sun shines is not without light, though all his candles are put ... (Anonymous)

My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. ... (Emma Watson)

Mangle was meant to become the Toy Foxy, but rapidly evolved into a favorite connected with toddlers who could pull him separate piece by portion. The staff might put him ... (Storyville Books)

I am always safe, no matter which doorway I pass through. ... (Louise Hay)

This is the thing, I think often, that never occurs to you when you consider what it would be like to lose someone you love. That you would miss not ... (Cody McFadyen)

Guurl. Tell me. Do you keep your hair this long for religious reasons? Like, will you lose your strength if you cut it?--Terry, a member of the glam squad, to ... (Naima Simone)

You and I both know a submissive is not a doormat. A dominant cannot be a dominant without consent, and I think you have more need than you're willing to ... (Elizabeth SaFleur)

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. ... (Jane Austen)

Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera. ... (Edward Ruscha)

Since he'd been born rich into a family that had been a long time rich, he'd never known the need to suppress his feelings, so he pouted completely and might ... (Donald E. Westlake)

And is death not the ultimate orgasm, a return to that otherworldly ether, whose very origins were indeed a Big Bang, the ultimate explosion, the supreme chaos, whose resonance is ... (Lydia Lunch)

From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we ... (Gretel Ehrlich)

If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable ... (L. Ron Hubbard)