FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful. ... (Virginia Satir)

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even ... (Hugh Laurie)

But what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she's not beautiful. There's a certain set to the jaw and arch to the ... (Terry Pratchett)

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a ... (Val McDermid)

Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for ... (Douglas Clegg)

Why should I trust you?" Her eyes narrowed. "All I really know about you is that you're not loyal to your girlfriends, you treat one-night stands like crap, and apparently ... (Zoe Forward)

God language can tie people into knots, of course. In part, that is because 'God' is not God's name. Referring to the highest power we can imagine, 'God' is our ... (Forrest Church)

From the Bible we can surmise that God will ask us two crucial questions: First, "What did you do with my Son, Jesus Christ?" God won't ask about your religious ... (Rick Warren)

They came generally from people writing theses on fantasy or on the Dark Is Rising books. They were full of questions I'd never thought about and false assumptions that I ... (Susan Cooper)

I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads. ... (Dez Bryant)

Except I was hoping someday to see you standing on a ship's deck in your shirtsleeves with a cutlass between your teeth." "Maybe it can be arranged ... (Melanie Dickerson)

In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change. Recent developments in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have ... (Aldous Huxley)

When I was little, my friends would get so excited when I told them that my parents did most of their scientific work at home, and they'd come in for ... (Claudia Gray)

If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy is going to win in court before me, ... But if the Constitution says that the big ... (John Roberts)

Let us understand these words very clearly: No man is king in this world! No man has the right to be king in this world! Permit no man to be ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

On a level, they might be perfect for one another, but it's a theoretical perfection only, compromised by timing. Their bests passed one another on the way to here, and ... (Billy O'Callaghan)

Love does not involve emotions, then?" he asked her with a smile. "It is not ruled by them," she told him. "Love is liking and companionship and respect and trust. ... (Mary Balogh)

Even if you're starting from scratch and buying a new wardrobe, preppy clothes are very fairly priced compared to high fashion. They're very easy to absorb into your wardrobe. You ... (Lisa Birnbach)

The thing is done; it can't be undone. How can one go back and change a moment passed? Even a moment that should never have come. I fear with the ... (Kristen Heitzmann)

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out. ... (Lolo Jones)

A big part of a middle manager's work is to supply information and know-how, and to impart a sense of the preferred method of handling things to the groups under ... (Andrew S. Grove)

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it. ... (Colin Wilson)

At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose ... (Rebecca Solnit)

The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through ... (Bede)

We really feel very humbled that we are a part of so many lives around the globe and that we can help connect people from everywhere with and through our ... (Luka Sulic)

You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but ... (Michael Irvin)

You made me laugh at your jokes. You made me cry at your criticism. You made me shout at your lies. Then I noticed how in every case someone else ... (Richelle E. Goodrich)

I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," ... (Mireille Enos)

It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you can do. Let the thrill go - let it die away - go ... (C.S. Lewis)

The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary with age, enfeebled, dry. So more the things remain the same, the more they change after all. ... (John Knowles)

Puck shook her head ruefully. "We haven't even solved the first problem, and I'm worrying about the next one. I must be an idiot." "No," Hush said, wiggling an impossible ... (Annette Curtis Klause)

When Grant Blue reaches me, he bends his head down close enough that I can smell the soap and promise on his skin. Clean living and popularity - It's quite ... (Isobel Irons)

Chorea - a twinkling movement or motor scintillation - does not have its origin in the cerebral cortex, but in the deeper parts of the brain, the basal ganglia and ... (Oliver Sacks)

Meridian First daylight on the bittersweet-hung sleeping porch at high summer; dew all over the lawn, sowing diamond- point-highlighted shadows; the hired man's shadow revolving along the walk, a flash ... (Amy Clampitt)

I was up really early. It was the day of my selection tests and interviews to become a Prison Officer. The recruitment process was an absolute joke ... Everyone could ... (Ronnie Thompson)

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking. ... (Adrian Rogers)

All of us face hard choices in our lives. Some face more than their share. We have to decide how to balance the demands of work and family. Caring for ... (Hillary Rodham Clinton)

When I played at Minnesota, Green Bay, those northern cities, Buffalo, they wanted to have those championship games at home. It was going to be an advantage to be there ... (Tony Dungy)

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom. ... (Zoe Kazan)

How much farther?" Sammy asks. It will be dark soon, and the dark is the worst time. Nobody told him, but he just knows that when they finally cone it ... (Rick Yancey)

When you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ... ... (John Geddes)

The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in the game are. But understanding ... (Martin Rees)

Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have ... (Marianne Williamson)

In answer to which, I assured his honor that in all points out of their [lawyers'] own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the ... (Jonathan Swift)

I started by writing short stories, but they weren't very good; I tried them on various magazines, and none of them was published. People were nicer then about turning you ... (Ruth Rendell)

In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing ... (Carl Honore)

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of ... (Julia Cameron)

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press. ... (Katharine Graham)

May the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away. May I be the doctor and the medicine and may I be the nurse for all sick beings in ... (Shantideva)

We ordered food a few hours ago and worked through dinner. I had pasta with chicken, while Kate preferred a turkey club with fries on the side. Much as I ... (Emma Chase)

My hand still shakes when I sign autographs. I still go and sit in the movies like everyone else and look up there and go 'God! Movie stars! Wow!' And ... (Kim Basinger)

I fucking hated labels. Always had. But maybe that was because no one had ever given me the right one. At least, not until that moment. Gay. Straight. Bi. None ... (Aly Martinez)

The use of drugs is not an effective means of facilitating real escape. It merely gives that erroneous and illusive impression. Well, illusive with an I and elusive with an ... (H.M. Forester)

I can't take this kind of suspense. Decide now." He untied the ropes around her wrists. "Walk out the door. In a year you'll be free of any entanglements with ... (Christina Dodd)

We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for ... (Richard D. Phillips)

So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vampires investigating various mysterious supernatural events, vampires ... (Kelly Link)

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities. ... (Mahavira)

The principle of avoiding conflict and never opposing an aggressor's strength head-on is the essence of aikido. We apply the same principle to problems that arise in life. The skilled ... (Joe Hyams)

What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own. ... (Jane Austen)

Please tell me you have to pee." "What? No. No, I do not. Don't even ask." "Oh, come on. I'd do it myself if I could, but I can't. I'm ... (Laini Taylor)