FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love ... (Dorothy Hamill)

Philosophy has been described as thinking about thinking, and all Christians should do that. The term comes from two Greek words, philia ("love") and sophia ("wisdom"), thus "loving wisdom." Nothing ... (Rick Cornish)

The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they'd have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in ... (Elliott Abrams)

They say life isn't about waiting for the storm to end, it's about learning to dance in the rain. You have dancing in the rain down to an art. ... (Jaclyn M. Hawkes)

I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. ... (J. D. Souther)

At one point, a man who looked not much older than me said that though he loved his family, he'd never felt like he belonged. "Maybe it's not them, and ... (Victoria Patterson)

I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still like to make: a very talky film of ... (Charles Ferguson)

No one can take your soul from you. You have to give it away. Here's my soul. I'm giving it to you. I hope you're listening. ... (Karen Healey)

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man: ... (John Steinbeck)

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these ... (Francis Bacon)

Many people make the mistake of expecting others to treat them in a more loving and respectful way than they treat themselves. If you don't love yourself, stop expecting others ... (Steve Maraboli)

Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to ... (Robert H. Jackson)

We'll become whoever we trust the most says we are. ... (Bob Goff)

You're too cold to freeze, Blade. You have a heart of ice. I try to help you, and all I receive is scorn. ... (T.C. Southwell)

I read it twice, then I said, "Well, why don't you?" "Why don't I what?" "Why don't you wish her many happy returns? It doesn't seem much to ask." "But ... (P.G. Wodehouse)

Dishrags have faces Flashlights have hate Pine trees are sweetest To sit and meditate The Holy Virgin of Heaven Saw us in the rainy first morning ... (Jack Kerouac)

Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India. At the time of his birth, India had been ruled by the English for over 200 years. "There was nothing ... (Cameron C. Taylor)

Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me ... (Chris Martin)

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come. ... (Andrew Bogut)

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, ... (Martin Luther King Jr.)

The only thing that mattered was that the quarter century or so he had remaining would be his life, to live out as he chose and in his own best ... (Ken Grimwood)

It is often said that the divided condition of Christendom is an evil, and so it is. But the evil consists in the existence of the errors which cause the ... (J. Gresham Machen)

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use. ... (Catherine Tate)

A gleam of humor flickered in those obsidian eyes. I should warn you, Hannah: when we meet at Stony Cross Park, take care to avoid the mistletoe. For both our ... (Lisa Kleypas)

Then think of fire, It's laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, The flames reaching through the second story of a house almost as if to -mistakenly- rescue someone ... (Larry Levis)

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. ... (Henry Adams)

Human life is designed as a self-study program. Existence is always one undivided. It is what we often call the Light. It is a pure consciousness of unconditional love. Out ... (Raphael Zernoff)

My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien. ... (Rashid Johnson)

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while ... (T.F. Hodge)

And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original procreation of matter only a disease, a growth ... (Thomas Mann)