62401 Quotes & Sayings

I once asked the servants why none of them had blue eyes like my aunts. They replied that only the ladies could afford to buy the blue glass cups in which they kept their eyes at night to make them more blue and beautiful, and furthermore, if we went on asking silly questions, the rats that steal the faces of inquisitive children in order to wear them as masks would come to take us to live in the twilit world between the ceiling and the roof where no one ever dared to go. — Jose Donoso

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country. — Taslima Nasrin

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid! — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Karl Barth once wittily remarked, One can not speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table. — Reese Witherspoon

Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A — R. Scott Bakker

Maybe that's what love meant, both people thinking they were the lucky one. — Meera Syal

F***, some people are so determined to be good that it makes me want to puke.
Bruno Hanson in
In The Shadow of Sadd. — Steen Langstrup

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words together. — Robert Harris

Bottom line, if Bad Guy Sid hurt Stella or any of the Rock Chicks, Mace, not known for being a mellow guy (at all, even at the best of times), was going to hunt him down and kill him. — Kristen Ashley

Love is the one thing in this world worth taking a risk for. When you're older and you look back on the life you lived, you won't regret the fact that you took the chance to love someone. But you will regret the chances on love you didn't take. Especially the ones rooted in fear. They're only scary because you have the most to lose. You feel the most for them. Don't let the fear of losing love stop you from having the experience altogether. — J. Sterling

What I've realized is that life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children - all of our children - a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. — Barack Obama

Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same. — Archibald Wavell

When you're lucky enough to catch lightning in a bottle, you put the lid on as fast as you can. — Emily McKay

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion. — Bertrand Russell