FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far. ... (Heather Lyons)

As long as you are forced to be a woman first instead of a person, by default, you need to be a feminist. That's it. Men are people, women are ... (Alexandra Petri)

One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. ... (C. K. Williams)

If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt. ... (Jose Ferreira)

I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organised religion ... (Lance Armstrong)

God will fulfil His promise. Wait patiently for God to act. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

All fingers are not same in length but when they are bent all stands equal. Life becomes easy when we bend and adjust to situations. ... (herryicm)

I am trying now to be entirely honest. I did actually comfort in the thought that the Devil had, on Strawless Common, defeated God. I much preferred that thought to ... (Norah Lofts)

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds, come nitrogen, ... (Natalie Goldberg)

My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer- how, without inflicting any injury on ... (Robert Peel)

I'm not a housewife in any way. ... (Courteney Cox)

Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of ... (Anne Lamott)

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles. ... (Marvin Bower)

Well?" Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?" Harry considered it for a moment. "Wet," he said truthfully. Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation ... (J.K. Rowling)

Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the ... (William Butler Yeats)

A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's ... (Chaka Khan)

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late ... (Irvine Welsh)

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them ... (Erica Jong)

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less. ... (Mike Murdock)

One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion ... (Eula Biss)

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together. ... (Oprah Winfrey)

But there are other men who put peace ahead of righteousness, and who care so little for facts that they treat fantastic declarations for immediate universal arbitration as being valuable, ... (Theodore Roosevelt)

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver. ... (Alan Alda)

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as ... (Mary Leakey)

Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institution, to God. In this way, he transcends the separateness of ... (Erich Fromm)

Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch. ... (Guillermo del Toro)

The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever ... (Joel Osteen)

"Croissant": However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying "kwass-ohn," the sooner you ... (Bill Bryson)

The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in the game are. But understanding ... (Martin Rees)

To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal! since to Nobody can I be wholly unreserved, to Nobody can I reveal every thought, every wish of my heart, with the ... (Fanny Burney)