FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep fear for most people. I'm not scared of ... (Jonathan Trigell)

So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In ... (Ford Madox Ford)

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the ... (Jesse Owens)

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary ... (Siri Hustvedt)

They did a study and found that countless men would choose gambling over love if given the chance. Even more would choose pornography over love if given the chance. We ... (Pete Wentz)

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition. ... (Brian Aldiss)

_Sunday!_ In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all of the time you ... (Betty MacDonald)

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of ... (Henry David Thoreau)

A prison chaplain in the West of England confessed he had given up one prisoner as hopeless, so stubborn was he against any approach by him, and known throughout the ... (Francis Gay)

Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National ... (William Z. Foster)

Conspiracy!! And now employing juvenile mongoloid demon babies!! My famous chicken recipe will never be yours!! Grr! Woof! ... (Jhonen Vasquez)

Hello, Aaron," Brigid said, sliding up to him and running a finger down his chest. "You're looking good . . as always." Aaron lifted her finger off his shirt and ... (Kelley Armstrong)

In the absence of a widely practiced and capable attention to our use of the land, to the land-use economies, and to the natural sources of our life, we have ... (Wendell Berry)

Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy of life and of humanity back with us. In the ... (Heinrich Harrer)

The Muskrat was still lying in his hammock and thinking. "Good afternoon, Uncle Muskrat!" said Moomintroll. "Do you know that things have begun to happen?" "Nothing new in any case," ... (Tove Jansson)

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life. ... (Anthony Hopkins)

Rolling through Manhattan in his limousine, Donald confided that he was nervous about his pending marriage to Slovenian model Melania Knauss, which was just ten days away. "It's all in ... (Timothy L. O'Brien)

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals. ... (Niccolo Machiavelli)

Dream a dream and then chase it with all your might! ... (Jack Canfield)

There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down, and others chew side-to-side, like ... (Mary Roach)

The stag's enormous head turned slightly - toward the wagon, toward the small window. The Lord of the North. So the people of Terrasen will always know how to find ... (Sarah J. Maas)

Just don't get distracted. Keep focused." "I think I could figure that out." I snapped, and knew I was on edge; perhaps overreacting due to stress. "There's a lot of ... (Donna Augustine)

Someone once defined a theologian as a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that was not there. ... (Darius Brasher)

Time is like a river," Coydog had told the boy. "It come up behind ya hard and just keep right on goin'. You couldn't stop it no more than you ... (Walter Mosley)

My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of ... (Jenkin Lloyd Jones)

Morgan glanced over his shoulder to where Dougie walked behind him. "Dougie, you're lookin' a bit worn. Are you needin' to stop and, um, rest a bit?" Dougie looked at ... (Pamela Clare)

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland. ... (John Steinbeck)

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. ... (Michael Moriarty)

We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those ... (Walter Benjamin)

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small. ... (John Piper)