FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When ... we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of ... (Aristotle.)

Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology ... (Fannie Barrier Williams)

There's sex, and there's ... this." He met my eyes. "Just being with someone like this. This isn't something that can be bought or sold, and I couldn't manufacture it ... (Lauren Gallagher)

LOVE is measured in GAUGE TWENTY- specifically, love pressure in the surrounding area. If it drops below four percent, though, you may have trouble-the VW might get sad, slow down, ... (Christopher Boucher)

I was looking at a bottle of water; they have nutritional facts printed on the side. You know, I'm no chemist, but I have a rough idea what's in water. ... (Jim Gaffigan)

Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with ... (Gil Evans)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he probably just thought it was an American city ... (Jay Leno)

That's pretty amazing, the countries thing," I said. "Yeah, everybody's got a talent. I can memorize things. And you can...?" "Urn, I know a lot of people's last words." It ... (John Green)

Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation ... (Louis de Montfort)

I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I ... (Kevin Costner)

If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing ... (Benedict Cumberbatch)

It's all right." "It's not. Nothing's right. I've never done a right thing in my life, it seems." "That makes a pair of us then." Her lips pressed against the ... (Tessa Dare)

Coming back to Guess is so natural for me; they're my family. I always love being back, and to be able to come home and be in Malibu across the ... (Gigi Hadid)

A good speaker does not stutter. ... (Laozi)

Bayleigh got up from the table and walked slowly toward Cade, the shirt she'd stolen from him barely buttoned and enticing him with every step. His pupils dilated with desire ... (Liliana Hart)

He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was ... (Nicholas Sparks)

Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life in short, faith in reason and the ... (Joseph Alexander Leighton)

Why am I the expert all of a sudden?" "Of the two of us, you have more stalking experience." He leaned back. "Really?" "Yes. When you let yourself into my ... (Ilona Andrews)

Patches of hair stuck to his wet cheekbones. His ears were threaded with tiny little wampum earrings, except at the cartilage, where the rings were turquoise. His stubby nose ended ... (Rose Christo)

I say, did you hear me?" The old man shook a worn walking stick at the oak. "I said move it and I meant it! I was sitting on that ... (Margaret Weis)

We work our whole lives trying to get rich so we can impress the world with our fancy houses and cars, but in the end it doesn't matter how much ... (J.S. Bailey)

But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country ... (Patrick O'Brian)

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember ... (Homer)

I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take ... (Kourtney Kardashian)

Today is the best day to be compassionate and kind. Extend your hand, open your heart with a sympathetic mind. Be the symbol of love, kindness, and compassion. ... (Debasish Mridha)

Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just ... (Lloyd DeMause)

It's too soon, too fast. We don't even know each other." "Says who?" Ethan demanded. "Who decides how long it should take? Who makes the rules?" Erica shrugged because she ... (Melissa Hale)

If I had had a daughter, I always knew what I would tell her. First of all, I would try to counter all outdated stereotypical claptrap that girls are commonly ... (Doris Anderson)

The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared ... (Candice Millard)

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and ... (Justin Trudeau)

The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's always bothered me. There is within it the implication that ... (Madeleine L'Engle)

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts. ... (Stephen King)

You cannot seriously think you're going to fight this guy. He could kick your ass with one arm tied behind his back, much less with all his voluminous vampire powers. ... (Chloe Neill)

Simple love's hard to come by/ im just living my life, and i'm trying to be a lady. ... (L. Divine)

I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world ... (Tom DeLonge)

There are two keys to productive missionary work (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember family) and (2) cooperation between members and the missionaries ... (Spencer W. Kimball)

If you are convinced that you are not capable of doing something, you can only do it badly. ... (Eraldo Banovac)

I already have two movies in the can, low-key, which are 'Vincent-N-Roxxy' and 'Keanu' with Key and Peele, which is my first comedy, and it's going to be super dope, ... (Jason Mitchell)

Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over ... (Jack LaLanne)

I've never loved before but this has to be it. You are everything I want and need. You make me complete and having you in my arms is the most ... (Laurann Dohner)

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. ... (Ulysses S. Grant)

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man. ... (John Irving)

There is no advice, counselling, books that can make any marriage to work unless the male and female involved are ready to change. Change is the only way to make ... (Patience Johnson)

Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually ... (Jeannette Walls)

I can't tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of ... (Emeril Lagasse)

This is a part of post-college life that nobody ever warns you about. Your social life is no longer dropped into your lap by virtue of shared classes and extracurricular ... (Lauren Layne)

There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form ... ... (Adam Gidwitz)

Holy cow!" I said. "You can't go to the door like that!" "My gun's in the kitchen." "Yes, but your underwear's on the floor in my bedroom!" And that wasn't ... (Janet Evanovich)

The piano was just now telling me how it feels so odd when it rains. The rain can cause you to suddently feel guilty for all the tiny crimes you ... (Heather O'Neill)

Does this ... does this mean you want to be my boyfriend?" My question sounds both immature and momentous. But Josh doesn't flinch. "Yes," he says. "I want. ... (Stephanie Perkins)

You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of ... (Scott Aukerman)

A Mother's Advice Manners matter, regardless of your position in society. There is no excuse in this world to practice bad manners, especially at the table. I found that out ... (Deborah Ford)

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine. ... (Aimee Mullins)

Remember, there were dragons long before men came into the world. Why, it was none other than The Great Dragons of Yore who invented the idea of knighthood. Yes, yes, ... (Sully Tarnish)

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can ... (Sue Monk Kidd)

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot. ... (Bernie Mac)

Evie is our beautiful, dark-haired, green-eyed child,' I say. I can hear the tremor in my voice. 'Like many seven-year-old girls, she's obsessed with princesses. We think she looks more ... (Sanjida Kay)

OMG. He's a gift shop, a lamb kebab with mint,/a solar panel poetry machine with biceps. He's the path/through the dark woods, the light on the page, a postcard/from the ... (Ron Koertge)

There's always that one guy who gets a hold on you. Not like your best friend's brother who gets you in a headlock kind of hold. Or the little kid ... (Jess Rothenberg)

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes. ... (Robert Altman)