425084 Quotes & Sayings

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country ... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. — Terry Gilliam

I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking. — Tim Howard

That's the problem with having a calling," Kennedy says. "It doesn't just pay the rent." A — Jodi Picoult

Take this Hercules -this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies! — Agatha Christie

Get it 80 percent right and then correct it later. — Brian Tracy

I realised that in refusing to take a vow man was drawn into temptation, and that to be bound by a vow was like a passage from libertinism to a real monogamous marriage. "I believe in effort, I do not want to bind myself with vows," is the mentality of weakness and betrays a subtle desire for the thing to be avoided. Or where can be the difficulty in making a final decision? I vow to flee from the serpent which I know will bite me, I do not simply make an effort to flee from him. I know that mere effort may mean certain death. Mere effort means ignorance of the certain fact that the serpent is bound to kill me. The fact, therefore, that I could rest content with an effort only, means that I have not yet clearly realised the necessity of definite action. "But supposing my views are changed in the future, how can I bind myself by a vow?" Such a doubt often deters us. But that doubt also betrays a lack of clear perception that a particular thing must be renounced. — Mahatma Gandhi

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. — Peter Abrahams

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin

IV. When those that we have formerly been conversant with are turning to God, and to his people, their example ought to influence us. Their example should be looked upon as the call of God to us to do as they have done. God, when he changes the heart of one, calls upon another; especially does he loudly call on those that have been their friends and acquaintance. — Jonathan Edwards

Wild Woman teaches women when not to act "nice" about protecting their soulful lives. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes. — Kristian Bush

The red was something none of them could contain. — E.J. Koh

The laws of economics and many studies of diversity tell us that if we tapped the entire pool of human resources and talent, our collective performance would improve. — Sheryl Sandberg

I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously. — Tig Notaro

These women stared out from the canvases with arched brows, enormous eyes and tiny mouths, seeing much, and saying little. — Neal Stephenson