2915 Quotes & Sayings

So when someone new came into this world of preordained power structures, someone who looked like they might understand a certain kind of emptiness, you might notice her. — Kate Scelsa

There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real secret of pleasant society. — E. Nesbit

Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area. — Carol Browner

However big or small your obstacles may be, it's time to get a sledge hammer and strike them down. — Francine L. Huff

Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me. — Gautama Buddha

But suppose my eyes aren't blue enough? Blue enough for what? Blue enough for ... I don't know. Blue enough for something. Blue enough ... for you! — Toni Morrison

How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is
it can only be
the vigor of his protest against it. — Andre Breton

Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them. — K.J. Bishop

It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all — Rona Jaffe

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room. — Patrick O'Brian

I would love to be one of the few artists that hits a point of success and can go back into the studio and make another album that matters and relates to people and not go back in and be super tainted by this whole thing. — Ryan Lewis

I want to see a doctor," I said.
He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea."
"I want to see a less capable doctor. — Yongsoo Park

There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality. — Courtney Love

The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans. — Jack Kelly