FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. ... (Gautama Buddha)

It rarely snows because Antarctica is a desert. An iceberg means it's tens of millions of years old and has calved from a glacier. (This is why you must love ... (Maria Semple)

And isn't that the tragedy of love, it's utter and complete deceit, that you can only be true in it, that you only wish to reveal your full truth to ... (Omair Ahmad)

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied. ... (John F. Kennedy)

Why are you speaking like this? Are you the one who is to come? Can anything good come out of Nazareth? What sign can you show us? Why does he ... (N. T. Wright)

All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like ... (Elizabeth Enright)

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. ... (Merle Travis)

I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ... and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my ... (Mark Doty)

To write is to release the soul. So write. What right have we to leave a thing of such beauty bottled within ourselves? ... (Brian A. McBride)

But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn't ... (Diane Meier)

I'm just a regular guy. ... (Stewart Rahr)

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie ... (Wentworth Miller)

My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely ... (Jim Butcher)

I know a flower that grows in the valley, none knows it but I. It has purple leaves, and a star in its heart, and its juice is as white ... (Oscar Wilde)

I myself am a supporter of multilingualism, but multilingualism without a true understanding of universal language will only make us blind and ultimately ineffectual in realizing that very ideal. ... (Minae Mizumura)

I wasn't worried about myself. I didn't consider the possibility that either of the men could catch me. I was all-star varsity soccer. I was Braveheart in Urban Outfitters. I ... (Rosemary Clement-Moore)

Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to conduct your life, and how to remain very ... (Charles Busch)

I am confident i am over you. so much that some mornings i wake up with a smile on my face and my hands pressed together thanking the universe for ... (Rupi Kaur)

King Karma; I know that karma is a force in this universe, and that people will receive karmic justice for their actions. I know that this justice will come when ... (Garth Stein)

My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body ... (John Steinbeck)

When they gaze in confusion at the broken, odd shaped, colorful shards of glass that we are, let them know that we too belong here, here in this gallery. Masterpieces, ... (Ayokunle Falomo)

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment ... judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light ... (Ambrose Bierce)

You want to help. That's fine but do you know how you want to help? The intent may be good, but without the way, you are lost. ... (Arnab Ray)

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up. ... (Charles Sanders Peirce)

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs ... (Nick Lampson)

[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one. ... (Cathy Guisewite)

Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the ... (Neltje Blanchan)

Changing the new upper class by force majeure won't work and isn't a good idea in any case. The new upper class will change only if its members decide that ... (Charles Murray)

Hustle ... Your excuses are someone else's motivation. ... (Behdad Sami)

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher ... (James Garner)