FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Spring. The enormous economic impact of the mule trade and how Oregon Trail traffic stimulated the American economy have been frequently ignored by historians, mostly because it is a lot ... (Rinker Buck)

What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take ... (Sarah Ban Breathnach)

When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son." ... (A.A. Allen)

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! ... (David Pratt)

[Taken from a BBC documentary] Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long ... (Tariq Ali)

The features that made the Church of the Holy Sepulcher different from any cathedral he had ever visited. For under the ornate dome of the rotunda, surrounded by massive marble ... (Glenn Cooper)

They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved ... if this optimism appears too ... (Simone de Beauvoir)

I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to read. To have a birth mother die before getting any ... (Janet Louise Stephenson)

Still, humans have a wonderful capacity to believe in contradictions. So it should not come as a surprise that millions of pious Christians, Muslims and Jews manage to believe at ... (Yuval Noah Harari)

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? ... (Chris Abani)

Love is stronger than both fear and hope - if you can love the natural beauty around you, the amazing gifts and skills we have, the fact that you are ... (Jay Woodman)

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there ... (Gloria Steinem)

Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang ... (Dylan Thomas)

Perfect faith casts out all fears. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one. ... (Shannon L. Alder)

But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself avoid trying to be something you're not. For ... (Rick Riordan)

A genuinely caring heart always find kindness and happiness to share. ... (Debasish Mridha)

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays ... (Donald Hall)

I have enormous respect for our military men and women, the everyday heroes who provide the security the rest of us enjoy. I don't like them in front of that ... (Karen Marie Moning)

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book. ... (Jonathan Glazer)

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data. ... (Paul Gibbons)

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy. ... (David Shrigley)

The three great acts are love, goodness and self-sacrifice. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

Every age has its own way of mythmaking. Ancient Egypt had its myths, the Sumerians and the Assyrians, the Christians and the Muslims, the North and the South the style ... (Yasar Kemal)

I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to ... (Henry Rollins)

It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in ... (Isaac Marion)

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice. ... (John Lothrop Motley)

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there. ... (Derek Sivers)

Be careful what you pray for. ... (Janet Morris)

If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame. ... (Moby)