FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power. ... (E. J. Dionne)

The antiquated rhetoric of 'having it all' disregards the basis of every economic relationship: the idea of trade-offs. All of us are dealing with the constrained optimization that is life, ... (Sheryl Sandberg)

I hate having long hair. It's like walking around with a dead koala on your back! ... (Russell Crowe)

Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be ... (Hayley Williams)

The result of feeling that we are separate minds in an alien, and mostly stupid, universe is that we have no common sense, no way of making sense of the ... (Alan W. Watts)

I've always thought of myself as a realist. I can remember fighting with my professors about it in grad school. The world that I live in consists of 250 advertisements ... (David Foster Wallace)

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work. ... (Joe Flanigan)

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't ... (Ruth Reichl)

While Lou loved the raucous music, loud voices, and chaotic movement of a dinner rush, the calm of prep-work soothed her soul and gave her time to think. Some people ... (Amy E. Reichert)

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 feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in. ... (Stephen Graham Jones)

My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, ... (Ibn Arabi)

No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new ... (Harrison Salisbury)

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. ... (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Ginny, listen ... I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together." "It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?" "It's ... (J.K. Rowling)

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a ... (E.B. White)

I am a dumb piece of meat and I rot everyday my flesh gives a rotting smell and people say it's the smell of life and they come to me ... (Daul Kim)

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow. ... (Anne Wilson Schaef)

A businessman can be as military as any politician. ... (Wes Craven)

How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither ... (Kilroy J. Oldster)

I arrived in Dallas two days before the party and planned on leaving the day after. I hated the city as much as I thought I would. All anyone could ... (Rabih Alameddine)

Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long. ... (Israelmore Ayivor)

Human beings only learn by observing and copying. What does this really mean? It means that your friends will only tell you that your ideas are great once you succeed ... (Robin Sacredfire)

A spontaneous prayer makes differences and does changes. ... (Toba Beta)

The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that ... (Adam Nicolson)

It occurred to me, not exactly for the first time, that psychogeography didn't have much to do with the actual experience of walking. It was a nice idea, a clever ... (Geoff Nicholson)

The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as ridiculous as it is insulting to everyone in ... (Edzard Ernst)

I already know there will be happiness. For even there, next to the chimneys, in the intervals between the torments, there was something that resembled happiness. Everyone asks only about ... (Imre Kertesz)

For he will speak peace to his people. . . . psalm 85:8 Peace is a language. To "speak peace" is very different from speaking of peace. To speak of ... (Marilyn Chandler McEntyre)

If you wish to overcome any difficulty, resolved to endure adversity. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)