FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except ... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon ... (Floyd Dell)

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that ... (Herman Melville)

I'll take another stab at talking to her." "If you can't find a way, get Cooper to do it. You know how he loves controlling things. I'm sure he'll want ... (Bijou Hunter)

I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots. ... (Douglas Coupland)

This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green place invited refugees - partly because ... (John Hersey)

Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? ... (Paulo Coelho)

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer. ... (Ron Ben-Israel)

Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, ... (C.S. Lewis)

Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they've branded out there for free, they don't care about scarcity, they want any message they're invested in to be shared and to ... (Astra Taylor)

That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss. ... (Sarah Rayner)

I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything. ... (LZ Granderson)

I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't ... (Taye Diggs)

Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. ... (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can ... (Tracy K. Smith)

It was easy to find things she would like. Our taste was the same, it had been from the first. It would be impossible to live with someone otherwise. I've ... (James Salter)

Cono knew that all three of his tormentors would know the anthem by heart from their childhood years. They had sung it daily to belong to the elite of their ... (Victor Robert Lee)

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an ... (Peter Drucker)

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation. ... (S. N. Goenka)

A faraway-father is distant from his children; not necessarily in geography, but socially - either by choice or by force. Our country has many fathers who are figuratively-forced far and ... (H. Kirk Rainer)

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer ... (Terence McKenna)

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing. ... (Pauline Collins)

They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. ... (Raghad Hussein)

All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow. ... (Mikhail Naimy)

A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean. ... (Geoffrey Chaucer)

I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction ... (Jason Kilar)

Huntin too hard for the truth ain't a good idea, y'know," he added. "By the time you stumble over it, it ain't the truth no more. Unless there's death in ... (Peter Matthiessen)

Acid strength is measured by the pH scale, with lower numbers being stronger, and in 2005 a chemist from New Zealand invented a boron-based acid called a carborane, with a ... (Sam Kean)

You have been disappointed,you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Take courage, for these experiences have tempered the ... (Napoleon Hill)

Before we went to bed, Jake and Otto were called up to the living-room for prayers. Grandfather put on silver-rimmed spectacles and read several Psalms. His voice was so sympathetic ... (Willa Cather)

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. ... (Jim Wallis)