FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely ... (David McCullough)

We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a ... (Desmond Tutu)

Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there ... (Safak Pavey)

The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; ... (William Shakespeare)

Appreciate the moment. ... (Isamu Noguchi)

I can still make a fist, and breath still burns in my chest. So look at my face. Look at my mortal soul, and remember it. You did not crush ... (Susan Dennard)

You look furious," Pritkin said, watching me. "I just - I can't understand not fighting for your life - for what you want. Just giving up - " A corner ... (Karen Chance)

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. ... (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

[Martin Luther King, Jr.] concluded the learned discourse that came to be known as the 'loving your enemies' sermon this way: 'So this morning, as I look into your eyes ... (Sarah Vowell)

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of ... (Tab Hunter)

Remember that there is something else in the world even more important than making money. Your health, your family, your friendships should mean a thousand times more to you than ... (Orison Swett Marden)

I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here. ... (Tammy Blanchard)

Victoria Beckham is so nasty, why doesn't she just go home?! Her dresses are beautiful, but I don't care what she does. She's mean to all the people around her. ... (Joan Rivers)

It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like ... (Cory Doctorow)

There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and ... (George Deukmejian)

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a ... (Thornton T. Munger)

I could talk food all day. I love good food. ... (Tom Brady)

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. ... (Marcel Proust)

Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I thought myself as good as Sokrates I should be ... (Mary Renault)

My first date has been ... mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti. ... (Justin Bieber)

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The ... (Jesse L. Martin)

When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or ... (Melanie Shankle)

He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small. ... (Charles Dickens)

Me, though he had business relations with me many years ago, and we are now intimate; I will say with the fair daughter to whom he is so devotedly attached, ... (Charles Dickens)

You listen to your heart, Jack. And you listen to the voice that comes to you when you close your eyes. You'll know it because it will be something between ... (Mia Sheridan)

When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in ... (Christopher Booker)

The love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. ... (Louisa May Alcott)

Our earliest ancestors were descended from primates who thrived for millions of years in a treetop environment, and who in the process had evolved one of the most remarkable visual ... (Robert Greene)

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles. ... (Margaret Deland)

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that ... (David Hume)