4681 Quotes & Sayings

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful. — L. Neil Smith

I'm so excited to act; that has been a huge passion for me. — Avril Lavigne

Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others. — Jane Austen

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there. — Bucky Sinister

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding - a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words. — Wilhelm Stekel

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. — Samuel Rutherford

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. — William Penn

Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away. — Dada Bhagwan

I learned long ago that silence invites all manner of confidences. — Kate Morton

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish. — Ashley Jensen

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. — Les Brown

And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness. — Boethius

The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained, — Claire Messud

A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends. — Caryl Parker Haskins