FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, ... (Pope Leo XIII)

There was always a slug on the lettuce. This was too good to be true. He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David. He wasn't going to let his ... (Charlie Higson)

Big construction companies, making millions on underground developments such as this, had initially gone to the bother of bringing in cranes to lift mechanical diggers, once their work was done, ... (Paul Cornell)

For the first time in my life, I actually wished that everyone was the same. And I despised myself for my "differentness" or "uniqueness" as an individual. In the world ... (Laura Hanna)

Slowly the sky turned from the color of cornflower to that of hyacinth, and the Ferris wheel at Coney Island appeared like a ring of diamonds against the twilight. New ... (Anna Godbersen)

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap ... (Bobby Rahal)

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. ... (Richard Nelson Bolles)

I was in a very fancy, high-end boutique where the sales associates stand around like mannequins. I walked in and the first thing they said was, "Ooh it smells like ... (Niecy Nash)

Silence and twilight fell over the garden. Far away the sea was lapping gently and monotonously on the bar. The wind of evening in the poplars sounded like some sad, ... (L.M. Montgomery)

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness. ... (Stephen Richards)

She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders ... (Noorilhuda)

There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn't much. These mill towns with their narrow lanes and often narrow minds were ... (John William Tuohy)

I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork. ... (Natalie Portman)

Anything can hurt you, Harper. Even things you're supposed to be able to count on can hurt you." "These things you speak of, do they include how we're supposed to ... (Fisher Amelie)

If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me. ... (Tony Robbins)

Then you agree that you should keep me." With the smug satisfaction of an argument won, he propped his shoulder against the stall door. Her eyes picked him over as ... (Susan Wiggs)

No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking. ... (Jeff Cooper)

We have learned that to enable learning, an environment must be trusting, humanistic, and positive. It must promote high emotional engagement; mutual accountability; open-mindedness; permission to speak freely; reporting of ... (Edward D. Hess)

How Nicky went all fierce before he hung up. It was kinda hot actually." "Gross, Leah." I stand up and make a grab for the purple dress she's scrunching in ... (Kate McCarthy)

Great minds believe they will succeed. Average minds doubt they can succeed. Small minds don't even try to succeed. ... (Matshona Dhliwayo)

Books have souls and some of them tear us apart. ... (Anonymous)

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog. ... (Dan Rather)

And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine? ... (Kurt Vonnegut)

I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession which must have been painful to her, that ... (Marcel Proust)

Dialectics is the philosophy of opposites." I thought about this. "How do you make a philosophy out of opposites?" "Well, you know how people are. They like to see things ... (Jennifer Finney Boylan)

Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. ... (David Mitchell)

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me ... (Craig D. Lounsbrough)

I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian ... (Kapil Sharma)

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their ... (Stephen Merchant)

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life! ... (Steve Jobs)