FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

You can't live with the idea that someone might leave. So instead of being happy for me, like any normal person, you're pissed off because ooh, oh no, Hassan doesn't ... (John Green)

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world ... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's ... (Kenneth Koch)

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is ... (Susan Sontag)

The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia, like the immense sadness of ... (Bao Ninh)

I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to Los Angeles, stayed at hotels and ... (Chris Rock)

He felt that he had always been there, among the apple trees, watching for the woman in the tower to come to her window. Seasons may have passed, years may ... (Ava Zavora)

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. ... (Harper Lee)

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe. ... (Morgan Freeman)

I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie, because it's rooted in reality. The characters are ... (Craig Fairbrass)

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette. ... (Judith Martin)

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest. ... (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in ... (Elizabeth Lesser)

Oh, I should add, I'm not looting the city, but the people I heal often bring me gifts. I've got a statue of a dog made of gold with bright ... (Bard Bloom)

Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They're all ... (Andrew Barrett)

I love Jere more than anybody. He's my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too." His voice ... (Jenny Han)

Now, Miss Bentley," he said with mock seriousness. "I'll have you know that yes, you are correct, I will always be the master in a relationship. I will always be ... (Angela Verdenius)

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her ... (Richard Stearns)

Maybe there are just some men like that in the world, I thought. Men who have to be in charge, who have to punish those who awaken feelings in them ... (Helen Fielding)

Moving is a well-established tradition in America, and _moving up_ constitutes a significant part of the American dream. Not only is working one's way to a bigger house central to ... (Andres Duany)

It is possible to experience true divine wonders in your conversion but never to be taught a true description of what your experience is. Then someone starts to describe your ... (John Piper)

We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow some kind of merging with the truth. This ... (Mooji)

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be ... (Imogen Poots)

Most things we need in life are only inch deep below the ground, all you need to do is dig it out ... using the wind that you blow away.So ... (Nathaniel E. Quimada)

Fifteen states across the country have gas prices that have dipped below $2. That means it's now cheaper to buy a gallon of liquefied dinosaurs than one cup of coffee ... (Jimmy Fallon)

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since. ... (Robert Metcalfe)

I was one of two first cultural exchange artists been allowed to go to the West. I knew it was such a rare opportunity and I had to treasure it ... (Li Cunxin)

I did not want the evening to end just yet. I needed time to memorize what happiness felt like because I had experienced so little of it. Looking up into ... (Pat Conroy)

I'm yours. If you'll have me, I'm yours ... (H28)

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be. ... (Ian Hacking)

In the static mode an observer may unify the pieces of a puzzle, but only as a blueprint - kinetics add the third dimention of depth, and the fourth of ... (Harvey Manning)