FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Overcoming obstacles requires commitment and strength. Despite all odds, face each journey with courage, each struggle with accomplishment, and each challenge with victory. ... (Lorna Jackie Wilson)

Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with ... (Traci Harding)

Because evangelicals view their primary task as evangelism and discipleship,1 they tend to avoid issues that hinder these activities. Thus, they are generally not counter-cultural. With some significant exceptions, they ... (Christian Smith)

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. ... (Julie Walters)

Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at ... (Michael Gove)

In my 14 years of existence, I've never had a girl write nice things about me. I want to cry, and I think of that night with my mother, at ... (Megan Jacobson)

If you're paying attention, if your eyes and your ears and your mind are open, as they should be open. You can know and then, critically, hold on to that ... (Jean Hanff Korelitz)

The personal inevitably trumps the political, and the erotic trumps all: We will remember that Cleopatra slept with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony long after we have forgotten what she ... (Stacy Schiff)

Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, ... (Emma Bull)

It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can ... (Ranulph Fiennes)

Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; ... (Tim Harford)

My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, ... (Patrick Henry)

People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to ... (Jessie Cave)

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted. ... (Janice Dickinson)

The season for love is coming around The reason to love is nowhere around. Looking around I see no dearth The longing of love is blossoming around. The roses are ... (Amit Abraham)

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend. ... (Miroslav Vitous)

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path ... (William Banting)

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [ ... ] I conjecture that there is no good ... (Jack Edmonds)

The world of 1906 ... was a stable and a civilized world in which the greatness and authority of Britain and her Empire seemed unassailable and invulnerably secure. In spite ... (Violet Bonham Carter)

Mexico, as it was in the 1970s - and isn't now - was my Paris. With Mexicans, Europeans, and Americans I celebrated life and the journey, which took on qualities ... (Mason West)

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. ... (David Foster Wallace)

What about us? He looks at me. Was there ever really an us? He asks. Or just a me, and a you, and these random moments when our lives accidently ... (Katie Kacvinsky)

Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense - but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less ... (Cherie Priest)

The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imaginations to accept. After all, what is the first question we ask about ... (Ursula K. Le Guin)

A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a ... (Marilyn Johnson)

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. ... (Michelle Obama)

My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that someday our cities would open up more and let the green and the land and ... (Ray Bradbury)

Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals and prepare ... (Kim Yuna)

During the day I negotiated buying mom and pop companies and incorporating them into our larger network. Sometimes we let the original owners stay on as consultants. Rarely, actually, if ... (Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney)

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place. ... (Mahatma Gandhi)