1701q Quotes & Sayings

Cigarette companies market heavily to young people. They need young customers because their product kills the older ones. It is the only product that, if used as intended, kills the consumer. — George Carlin

No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out. — Jerry Della Femina

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger. — Alesha Dixon

By solemn vision and bright silver dream
His infancy was nurtured. Every sight
And sound from the vast earth and ambient air
Sent to his heart its choicest impulses. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting. — Mark Buchanan

She grinned wide and wicked, and Phane's chest tightened with desire. That is, until she said, I have many males. — Laura Wright

It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. — David Foster Wallace

Better think while it's still legal. — Erykah Badu

Is it not amazing, Puggly dear, that whenever we begin to congratulate ourselves on the breadth of our knowledge of the world, we discover that there are multitudes of people, in every corner of the earth, who have seen vastly more than we can ever hope to? — Amitav Ghosh

The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics. — Pankaj Mishra

We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know. — Keith B. Alexander

I am able to stay humble because I recognize that God has truly blessed me; I can't say that enough. I also understand without Him, all of this wouldn't be possible. — Heather Headley

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own! — John Hagee

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body. — Garry Moore

An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more. — Michael Socha