3973 Quotes & Sayings

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall. — Edmund Spenser

I want to live forever! I want to learn how to fly high! — Niall Horan

His features were pretty yet, and his eye and complexion brighter than I remembered them, though with merely temporary lustre borrowed from the salubrious air and genial sun. — Emily Bronte

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. — Mary Shelley

My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder. — Ali MacGraw

Idleness is an enemy of the soul. — Benedict Of Nursia

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds. — George P. Shultz

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people. — Milton Friedman

Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating? — Tim Burton

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs. — Annie Dillard

I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong - racial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God. — Billy Graham

Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user. — David Macinnis Gill

Neither could really help the other find sleep. But sometimes it was better just to know you weren't the only one awake. — Maggie Stiefvater

Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland. — Edward Abbey