21036 Quotes & Sayings

But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was all silly invention on her part. Yet she could not. Not quite. — Nella Larsen

"Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true. — Walter E. Williams

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti

With all the divisive forces tearing at our country, we need the glue of language to help hold us together. If we want to ensure that all our children have the same opportunities in life, alternative language education should stop and English should be acknowledged once and for all as the official language of the United States. — Bob Dole

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. — Jacques Barzun

Hold on to your vision and make it your reality. — Wayne Dyer

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty. — C.S. Lewis

It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come. — Arthur Schnitzler

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next. — Hugh Grant

Because his [Damien Hirst] art is idea art - art drawn on the back of cigarette packets and beer mats, roughed out in airport departure lounges and the back of the taxis, usually delegated to and carried by others - this leaves Damien a lot of time for what might loosely be called socializing. Hanging around. — Gordon Burn

As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form. — Paramahansa Yogananda

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam. — Josh Pais