FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Submission, when it is submission to the truth - and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful - has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism ... (Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi)

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ... (Norman Cousins)

You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's ... (Bono)

The woman's gaze sent chills racing down his spine. The diabolical, aberrantly predatory arch of her lips curdled his blood. Seriously, his blood must be curdling back at the lab ... (G.S. Jennsen)

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we ... (Daniel L. Schacter)

It was dark in the corridor; they were standing near a light. For a minute they looked silently at each other. Razumikhin remembered that minute all his life. Raskolnikov's burning ... (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Raphael came through the door like a child's nightmare, his eyes glowing an almost solid silver with wrath, his gleaming fangs fully extended, blood painting his mouth a brilliant red, ... (D.B. Reynolds)

This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of ... (J.K. Rowling)

I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things ... (Natalie Maines)

How far back his treachery goes, who can guess?' said Gandalf. 'He was not always evil. Once I do not doubt that he was the friend of Rohan; and even ... (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Among the responsibilities of any writer is that, no matter what else, they know what they mean. So, even if no one else knows what you're talking about, you do. ... (Joanna Newsom)

The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they ... (Mark Nepo)

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it. ... (Joel Hodgson)

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with. ... (James Surowiecki)

James: Mugs can be used for all sorts of things. Tea, soup, ice cream. But after my mug stage, I kept with my utilitarian impulse and pursued plate making. Lucy: ... (Kristen Tracy)

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the ... (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

It's good to have a special price to pay for the future and it will pay you in return, in the exact way you would wish to be paid. ... (Auliq Ice)

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs ... (Jodi Picoult)

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance? ... (Timothy Keller)

I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for 'Afterschool Special' auditions, which led to moving to ... (Ben Affleck)

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything ... (E.B. White)

I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable ... (Barack Obama)

Westcliff sees an odd sort of logic in why you would finally be the one to win St. Vincent's heart. He says a girl like you would appeal to ... ... (Lisa Kleypas)

I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences. ... (F.B. Meyer)

We use generators," Abram explained. "For the basics, but we don't believe in progress for the sake of progress, nor do we hold with the idea of acquiring for the ... (Ruth Price)

I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning from skate shops to record labels ... (Rob Dyrdek)

There were protocols to meet for the historic occasion. On the lunar dust they placed mementoes for the five-deceased American and Soviet spacemen, Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Vladimir ... (Alan Shepard)

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low ... (Woody Harrelson)

Yet lost in the debate about America's true intentions in the Middle East was the fact that large majorities in every Muslim-majority state surveyed told pollsters they wanted to see ... (Reza Aslan)

With Jason I thought I'd finally played my cards right, and now I'm just one more of those broken, sad people out there, figuring out a year in advance where ... (Douglas Coupland)