833 Quotes & Sayings

By the way, the other reason I agreed to help you is because I love your eyes. You have the most beautiful eyes. It's my weakness. — Katie Kacvinsky

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to. — Helene Hanff

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people. — Mary Lambert

Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind was interested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but also philosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time. — John Bagot Glubb

Come again? Am I saying that your four-dollar-a-day coffee habit is going to cost you $51,833.79 in twenty years? Yes, I am. Did you know that every dollar you spend today, no matter where you spend it, is costing you nearly five dollars in only twenty years (and ten dollars in thirty years)? That's because if you took a dollar and invested it at 8 percent, in twenty years, that dollar would be worth almost five. Every time you spend a buck today, it's like taking five dollars out of your future pocket. — Darren Hardy

Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts. — Max Weber

There was no point moping around when you faced imminent death. — Rick Riordan

The hard days that you face are not without purpose. They may be the very tools that the Lord wants to use in your life to bring you closer to Him, to teach you obedience, and to teach you to delight in His precious and priceless Word. — Rachel Lundy

Death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it. — Michelle Moran

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting. — Christina Baker Kline

When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual. — John Loengard

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire — Emmet Fox

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships ... — Margaret Atwood