1213 Quotes & Sayings

I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. — Jean-Dominique Bauby

I can't help being happy. I'm alive. — Ally Condie

That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it. — RZA

I pulled the loaded gun out of my coat, most people were the worst for wear with the drink, although I was well known and easily recognised with the big scar down my face. Well, didn't I go and let both barrels off at the streetlight, it exploded into pieces and the front of the pub went into darkness. — Stephen Richards

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent. — Dorothy Hamill

The myth of what we might term, simply, freedom - the myth that the less encumbered and entangled I am, or the less accountable and anchored I am to a particular relationship, the better able I am to find my truest self and secure real happiness. This myth is so ingrained in our imaginations, I suspect, that it may undergird and nurture all the other myths Myers mentions. And it's not hard to see how it strikes at the root of friendship. If your deepest fulfillment is found in personal autonomy, then friendship - or at least the close kind I want to recommend in these pages - is more of a liability than an asset. — Wesley Hill

Take a dark journey into the minds of multiple men and learn firsthand about the man who believes that he controls everything and controls nothing. — Aleatha Romig

Mackay told us that the Children's Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in Germany and France, and selling them in North Africa as slaves. Thirty thousand children volunteered, thinking they were going to Palestine. They were no doubt idle and deserted children who generally swarm in great cities, nurtured on vice and daring, said Mackay, and ready for anything. — Kurt Vonnegut

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton. — Dan Quayle

Ignore and ignorance share the same root. — Kathryn Erskine

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. — Victor Borge