169832 Quotes & Sayings

I grew up always wanting to act, always knowing that's what I wanted to do. — Kristen Hager

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.' — David Harsanyi

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. — David Bailey

I think love and beauty are what life is all about. — John Derek

To de-escalate a potential conflict, one method is to take a step backwards. — David W. Earle

It is not real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, or money that makes you rich; it is what you know about real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, and money that makes you rich. Ultimately, it is your financial intelligence that makes you rich. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her. — Jonathan Franzen

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities. — John Tillotson

You cannot trust a man with your money who cannot take care of his own. — Russell H. Conwell

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

He was a student - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to students.
He was a German - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to Germans.
He was young, handsome, studious, enthusiastic, metaphysical, reckless, unbelieving, heartless.
And being young, handsome, and eloquent he was beloved. ("The Cold Embrace") — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

You see," she said, "your first love isn't the first person you give your heart to - it's the first one who breaks it. — Lang Leav

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet. — Stephen Greenblatt

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found — Bertrand Russell