FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore. ... (Sue Fitzmaurice)

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that ... (Nik Kershaw)

The perception that vulnerability is weakness is the most widely accepted myth about vulnerability and the most dangerous. When we spend our lives pushing away and protecting ourselves from feeling ... (Amanda Palmer)

I'm right here," he said. "Dad's right here. I'm going nowhere. Just gonna wait until you're ready to come out into the world, and then your mom and I are ... (J.R. Ward)

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out. ... (Louis C.K.)

It was about a year ago when I first made contact with members of the British Foreign Office. I volunteered my services and privileged information to a foreign power. Which ... (Jane Thynne)

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need. ... (George Foreman)

Rodney set a plate in front of me and one in front of my mother. I almost fainted when she began to eat instead of hurling it at him. Had ... (Jeaniene Frost)

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed ... (William Howard Taft)

I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how ... (John Darnielle)

Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood ... (Alan Dershowitz)

Keep your hopes high. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

See, it's that kind of attitude that irritates me. My wolf is only a part of me, and while she might think you smell good and want to do nasty ... (Eve Langlais)

True courtesy," he continued, "earns the name. It is courtesy that is truthful. When the plebeian kneels to the monarch, he is offering his neck. He offers it because he ... (Gene Wolfe)

We live in the world we made up. ... (Jim Paul)

I am compliance itself - when I am not thwarted; - no one more easily led - when I have my own way. ... (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

I never leave my house. Then I don't have to put a bra on, and I don't have to change my pants. ... (Jennifer Lawrence)

It's never enough," he repeated, "but it is so much more than we had before. Without the Millennium project there would be no drugs, there would be no surgical equipment, ... (Nina Munk)

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia. ... (Sparky Anderson)

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them. ... (Adele)

We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt and reject everything else in ... (Thomas Merton)

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. ... (Sophocles)

Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant's desire to murder the father and possess the mother. ... (Donald O'Donovan)

We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing ... (Daniel Suarez)

I am a mystery to myself. ... (Angelina Grimke)

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden. ... (Catherine Deneuve)

We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives. ... (Marcia Muller)

The same uneven application of values applies in the weird worlds of academia and the think tanks. Like the media, they choose to close off their minds the moment that ... (Douglas Murray)

I told him he could take it and the rest of the stereo equipment, too. "Jesus," he said, "if I knew you were going to be so nice, I wouldn't ... (Rainbow Rowell)

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry. ... (George Bernard Shaw)