FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my deserting you, unless you give me cause.' I ... (Charles Dickens)

If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman ... (Vikram Mansharamani)

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars. ... (Edwidge Danticat)

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing. ... (Slash)

Many people are too quick to trust someone in the name of forgiveness and not make sure that the other is producing "fruit in keeping with repentance" (Luke 3:8). To ... (Henry Cloud)

Why are you Ojo the Unlucky?" asked the tin man. "Because I was born on a Friday." "Friday is not unlucky," declared the Emperor. "It's just one of seven days. ... (L. Frank Baum)

Tristan. The killspell is meant for him. Protect him, just as he would protect you. ... (Lilith Saintcrow)

Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing. ... (Mahbod Seraji)

And I'm not saying it's a bad song, you know, or anything like that. All I'm saying is that if you get, I don't know, a broom, say, and dip ... (Dylan Moran)

It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness and well being he may be enabled to ... (Martin Luther)

Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. ... (Demi Lovato)

He ran his hand from my wrist up to the crook of my elbow and then to my shoulder. "When I was a little kid, my dad would come to ... (Laura Anderson Kurk)

EJ cries, "We've been best friends since kindergarten. You can't become a babe slayer and leave me in the dust! I don't have an older sister. I'm disadvantaged. All I ... (Brent Crawford)

I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved. ... (Geraldine Brooks)

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing. ... (James A. Michener)

Now don't laugh 'cause I just might be ... the soft curve in your hardline. (from the song "Hardliners" by Holcombe Waller) ... (Tammara Webber)

Funny how possibility can lift you. Funny how reality can slam you down. ... (Cat Patrick)

The public was tired of divisive politics, tired of radical social programs. ... (John Jakes)

The abnormally large female cut the sandwich into four pieces and gave one to each before taking one for herself. They all took a bite and she grinned at their ... (Shelly Laurenston)

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to. ... (Carrie Fisher)

It is easy to curse someone, even a frail person can do that, but to bless someone it needs a strong heart.To love someone, to wish the best for them ... (Ameya Agrawal)

I inhale slowly, soaking it all in. I step forward and backward, my neck twisting and turning, memorizing every corner. I feel an instant connection to this place. Something about ... (Corey M.P.)

Fucked but freed, if that makes any sense at all. ... (Matthew Quick)

I must exist in shadows, while you live under exquisitely blue skies, and yet I don't hate you for the freedom that you take for granted-although I do envy you. ... (Dean Koontz)

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. ... (Donald Hall)

You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

The music and applause fast fading from his ears, Bruce would lay down his guitar, grit his teeth, and walk dutifuly back into his father's charred vision of the world. ... (Peter Ames Carlin)

There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for ... (Al Gore)

It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When ... (Rodney Atkins)

If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy. ... (Karen Hughes)