FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

In the next two years he would sit on ninety committees, chairing twenty-five. No other congressman came even remotely close to carrying such a heavy work load. Soon he was ... (John Ferling)

It was not fear of ridicule, to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life, but this blank desertion of his own mind that ... (Anne Carson)

Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first ... (John Milton)

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ... (Brenda Perlin)

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. ... (John Clare)

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places. ... (Thomas Merton)

If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried ... (Marcus Aurelius)

Ben Belkassem had boned up on the alpha-synths after DeVries stole this ship. Too much was classified for him to learn as much as he would have liked, but he'd ... (David Weber)

You will fall in love with someone for one night and one night only. They'll come to you when you need them and be gone in the morning when you ... (Ryan O'Connell)

If I cried just now in church it wasn't for the reason that you thought. I've cried enough for that, heaven knows, but just then it was for something different. ... (W. Somerset Maugham)

In general, then, pleasure is not good, because every pleasure is a perceptible process of coming into its nature; but no coming-into-being belongs to the same class as the ends ... (Aristotle.)

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are ... (Nikki Reed)

I miss him," she said. "Gideon." His eyes softened. "I imagine Henry has forgotten about finding a mate for him. I'll see what I can do. Edward would be quite ... (Colleen Coble)

Bashir paused to watch a live CNN feed ... Bashir was struck silent by the images of wailing Iraqi women carrying children's bodies out of the rubble of a bombed ... (Greg Mortenson)

There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either. ... (Robert Graves)

I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the end of America. It's a free market and ... (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union ... (Dick Thornburgh)

I believe that there are people who think as I do, who have thought as I do, who will think as I do. There are those who will live, unconscious ... (Sylvia Plath)

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains. ... (Madeleine M. Kunin)

Naught but leaves brushed in the wind, stemming from the forest behind my house. Oh, and of course, the wildlife seized every chance to tell the stars who they were; ... (Kevin Focke)

I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I ... (Axl Rose)

Self-discovery changes everything, including your relationships with people. When you find your authentic self, those who loved your mask are disappointed. you may end up alone, but you don't need ... (Vironika Tugaleva)

A lot of people never find the person God created them to be. They're too busy trying to live up to other people's expectations, or they try to create themselves ... (Nancy Mehl)

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to ... (Oscar Wilde)

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths. ... (Carl Sagan)

When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform and retraining throughout. And unfortunately, we cannot rely ... (Al Sharpton)

I'm like a moth that flew into your web of its own accord. I'm dreaming of the day you'll devour me ... But you just give me sweet nectar so ... (Setona Mizushiro)

A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent Roman general vouched for her grasp of military ... (Stacy Schiff)

Far better to be in places where words do what you want them to and where blood doesn't smell because it's set down in ink on the page; history ... (Rafael Chirbes)

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles. ... (C.S. Lewis)