FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys. ... (Michael Steinhardt)

The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that ... (Gregory David Roberts)

Years passed. The trees in our yard grew taller. I watched my family and my friends and neighbors, the teachers whom I'd had or imaged having, the high school I ... (Alice Sebold)

Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. ... (Peter Hook)

'Female Convict 701: Scorpion' is based on a manga as is 'Lady Snowblood.' I saw 'Lady Snowblood' in the theater between writing issue three and issue four of the first ... (Kelly Sue DeConnick)

Lion looking for someone to devour. ... (Lysa TerKeurst)

The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had ... (Hampton Sides)

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century. ... (Eleanor Catton)

That, that right there. That's it, that feeling, that moment of breathlessness, that little surge in your chest, the prickle of heat along your skin and the low hot roll ... (Christine Zolendz)

No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption. ... (Mahatma Gandhi)

We lose track of everything, and of everyone, even ourselves. The facts of my father's life are less known to me than those of the life of Hadrian. My own ... (Marguerite Yourcenar)

It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back ... (Hunter S. Thompson)

Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender ... (Marianne Williamson)

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have ... (Mary Decker)

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. ... (John Milton)

No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing, or suffering in the same way, and that gives us the stregnth to confront the challenge ... (Paulo Coelho)

When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance. ... (Zoe Sugg)

The desert lay in wait, more infinite than God, no less remote. ... (Debora Greger)

It's expression was solemn, its complexion muddy. ... (C.S. Lewis)

Blue opened and closed her chilly fists. The top edges of her fingerless gloves were fraying; she'd done a bad job knitting them last year, but they had a certain ... (Maggie Stiefvater)

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me. ... (Reggie Jackson)

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. ... (Adam Smith)

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity. ... (Walter Bagehot)

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. ... (Shakti Gawain)

If you grow up normal, you'll only be normal. ... (Michelle Wie)

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons. ... (Eric Thomas)

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." ... (Michel de Montaigne)

Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do they keep coming back, but they're bigger and ... (Northern Adams)

It hadn't been easy to reach the city where Jacob had grown up. The borders in his world were more tightly guarded than the island of the Fairies. ... (Cornelia Funke)

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one ... (Bram Stoker)