FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

The basic fact of the drug war was that the cartels were fighting one another for the right to export narcotics to the United States. An estimated 90 percent of ... (Hillary Rodham Clinton)

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is a team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses ... (Jimmy Breslin)

The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but ... (Damon Albarn)

I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts. ... (Karen Black)

My anger mounted. "What about your son and me? What about us? How can you even think of leaving me alone here with our baby boy? Telemachus needs his father. ... (Tamara Agha-Jaffar)

In every human undertaking there is something which is not in our power and does not come within our calculations; the wish to win this for oneself is the origin ... (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Daemon cursed again and I moved, blocking him. "Who does that?" Daemon demanded.Heat rolled off his body. "Actually, Kiefer Sutherland did. In the original Buffy movie," he explained. When I ... (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

I heard you were a player , okay , lets play a game. We'll flirt, play fights, talk 24/7, say goodmorning and goodnight every day, give each other nicknames, hang ... (Lyla Tyela Belikov)

You've got me, anyhow. I'm not good for much, I know, but I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life. Upon my word I will! and Laurie ... (Louisa May Alcott)

Throwing things near her but not exactly at her. I'm sure he told himself: I never hit her. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an ... (Gillian Flynn)

I was tormenting myself last night with the insomnia and anyone who has insomnia knows that it often leads to anxiety and getting mad at ourselves, which makes it worse. ... (Jai Uttal)

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift. ... (Timothy Keller)

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do. ... (Oprah Winfrey)

Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it. ... (Julie Kagawa)

Lucifer endears himself to us only as the Lord of Lies, for in this role he is most convincing as a character, which is to say, as a fiction that ... (Thomas Ligotti)

We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel, But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheels depends. We turn clay ... (Lao-Tzu)

The idea of freedom is quite in accord with a general, though vague, sentiment among us; it is an idea of fair play, of giving everyone a chance; and nothing ... (Charles Horton Cooley)

To make a long story short, there is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages. It's not simply ... (Guy Deutscher)

The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance. ... (Ted Agon)

Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing. You could be reaching for a glass in the ... (Pittacus Lore)

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos. ... (Mick Jagger)

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy ... (Samuel Johnson)

Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migratory cancer cells" are amoebic formations. They are produced from disintegrating tissue and ... (Wilhelm Reich)

I change the channel to another movie. An old one, but new to me. And, ironically, a thin, gorgeous blonde - Meg Ryan, maybe - rides her bike on a ... (K.A. Barson)

The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I ... (Carnie Wilson)

Most of all, community land contributions are both ethical and economically fair because they allow people to keep the fruits of their labour. Land contributions charge people for what they ... (Martin Adams)

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business. ... (Joseph P. Kennedy)

Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I ... (C.S. Lewis)

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!' ... (Phil McGraw)

I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane, it defies the gravity of an entire planet by exploiting a loophole ... (Jim Butcher)