27920 Quotes & Sayings

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat. — Herman Melville

My woman has a wandering eye;
Yarrow, thyme and thorn.
She eyes the ocean and the sky
While stitching sails, forlorn.
I got a kiss, and then a tear
As she bade me go;
But on the waves, my heart's in fear:
My woman's in the know. — F.T. McKinstry

I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers. — Matthew Quick

the church community is a hospital for recovering addicts to selfishness. — Winfield Bevins

I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy. — Lawrence LeShan

I had already imagined how it would be next year.
I'd be at Columbia, and Marcus would move to Manhattan, or maybe one of the outer boroughs. I would study hard, and he would make money playing gigs at dingy bars. We'd spend countless hours going to clubs to see bands on the verge, touring obscure art exhibits, and sipping pot after pot of black coffee at hole-in-the-wall cafes. Many more hours would be spent lounging under the covers. We would never run out of witty and fascinating things to say to each other. Eventually, he'd apply to Columbia, and we'd be the sort of well-educated, cosmopolitan couple that confuse the suburbumpkins who never leave Pineville. — Megan McCafferty

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. — John Ortberg

I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness. — Jean Craighead George

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in. — Toni Morrison

MAR4.19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. — Anonymous

If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers. — Pauline Marois

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. — Max Born

If the perfect Son of God is unattractive to you, then obviously you are an unattractive person. — John Gerstner

"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence. — David Mamet

Clean your Tongue with your Words, not with tongue cleaner — Samar Sudha