1226 Quotes & Sayings

I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right. — Jeff Daniels

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. — Irwin Shaw

One, I never get sick of talking about myself. — David Wain

I love a book that makes me cry. — L.M. Montgomery

Let us reach for the world that ought to be
that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls. — Barack Obama

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God. — Rick Warren

Jenny lacked any sense of property - she was constantly apologising to Yevgenia and asking for her permission to open the small upper window in order to let in her elderly tabby cat. Her main interests and worries centered around this cat and how to protect it from her neighbors ... She fed her own rations to the cat, whom she called 'my dear, silver child' The cat adored her; he was a rough sullen beast, but would become suddenly animated and affectionate when he saw her. — Vasily Grossman

I'm always looking for a story of survival. — Dave Pelzer

Monkshood was a good hour's walk from the town proper. The very narrow lanes meant that occasionally you had to throw yourself in the ditch to avoid a car, and once they had to throw themselves in the ditch to avoid a farmer coming by in a blue cart.

"The Americans have these inventions called sidewalks," Jared noted.

"We call them pavements," Kami said. "And we see them as luxuries that you just can't have with every road."

"You know what goes faster than us? Or even pretty, pretty ponies?" Jared asked.

"Your head, spinning through the air when detached from your shoulders after a grisly motorcycle crash — Sarah Rees Brennan

In stormy dark days, people need sunny thoughts to stand still firmly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors. — Ronald Fisher

I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs. — Carlos Beltran

Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle. — Henry Miller