36475 Quotes & Sayings

Always be grateful for your blessings, especially your heritage. When we are blessed with goodly parents, we should be grateful. This is the debt each of us owes for our heritage. — Quentin L. Cook

There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth. — Edgar Allan Poe

Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it's not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it's worth it. — Golshifteh Farahani

I'm not any kind of girl. I don't need man, but I don't hate romance. I think I'm kinda obsessed with romance, really, which is probably why I'm still single. -Mia — Audrey Carlan

I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks. — Douglas Brinkley

Now for some heartwork. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn't working for me when it wasn't working. The world doesn't come crashing down when you speak the truth. — Deb Caletti

The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion. — Dave Barry

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. — Chanakya

A horse is simply a horse. — Avicenna

A surge of emotion washed over him, took him under. He was helpless against it, flailing, gasping for air. Drowning in her. — Hanna Martine

In a speech at Bar Ilan university, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time endorses the establishment of a Palestinian state. — Martin Bunton

What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. - from Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke — Kate Bernheimer

to catch it called for harpooning it - which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it - which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it - which was a chancy business. — Jules Verne