FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow. ... (Mikhail Naimy)

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of ... (George Eliot)

Impossible . . . and . . . and I so loved our partnership, and was proud of it. Don't you see? - I can't go on being your partner ... (Jack London)

It doesn't matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt ... (Charlotte Eriksson)

The boxes stood there, judging her. Who came up with the names for these things? Early Pregnancy Test was fine, but First Response? What was she, a 911 call? Little ... (Julia Kent)

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language. ... (John Henry Newman)

A woman without a man a condition of 'manlessness' is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. ... (Barbara Kingsolver)

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. ... (David Levithan)

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a ... (E. O. Wilson)

But we can control ourselves - right now, in this moment. That's something. Maybe it's everything. ... (Therese Walsh)

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it ... (William Gurnall)

Still, we made it back to the corn mill, and even though it felt like a dwarf with a chisel had taken up permanent residence in my frontal lobe, I ... (Rachel Hawkins)

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ... (Adam Garcia)

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? ... (Martin Freeman)

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do ... (Jeremy Taylor)

It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays. ... (Emily Giffin)

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy ... (Diana Quick)

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ... (Freeman Dyson)

What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone in the forest at night. ... (Thomas Merton)

Love is self-serving - we do all sorts of things for our own comfort and call it love. But revenge is an intimate thing, don't you think? Would you be ... (Kathleen Tessaro)

When the illiterate and perhaps scornful trader has earned by enterprise and industry his coveted leisure and independence, and is admitted to the circles of wealth and fashion, he turns ... (Henry David Thoreau)

I have always thought that the notion of a Republic is a noble one, dating back to the glory days of Hellas, which all D'Angelines regard fondly as the last ... (Jacqueline Carey)

The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded at her but didn't reply. ... (Sarah Dessen)

Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that ... it is part of the ... (Thomas Sowell)

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story. ... (John L'Heureux)

Never question your ability or what destiny has called you to do. This is your Star Wars moment, my son. Stand up and do what you were meant to do. ... (Elisabeth Naughton)

He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects ... (Niccolo Machiavelli)

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)

I call it ... the hot dog tree, because ... it's a hot dog tree. ... (Paul Reubens)

It needs time, perspective, to show you that someone might be original. ... (Jill Dawson)