8788 Quotes & Sayings

I don't play games with people's lives like you do. — Simone Elkeles

But it's a tradition, as if that alone is reason enough. Slavery and buying your wife were traditions, too. — Patrick Ness

The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute to making their home town more environmentally sustainable. It is even less likely that visitors will gain any picture of what is being achieved. It is to solve this problem that the Green Map System has been developed. — Paul Burrell

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves. — Cat Deeley

I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody. — Kenyon Martin

So why, when we constantly offend Him and we are so unlovable and unloving, does God persist in loving us? ... [W]hy does God still love us, despite us? I do not have an answer to this question. But I know that if God's mercy didn't exist, there would be no hope. No matter how good we tried to be, we would be punished because of our sins. — Francis Chan

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event. — Jeff Foxworthy

For things to be right on the outside, they first have to be right on the inside. — Bohdi Sanders

It means," said Aslan, "that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward. And now - — C.S. Lewis

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. — Vittorio Alfieri

K.T. stops dead in her tracks, her eyes locked on Horace's car.
"Holy crap," she mutters, eyes wide. "Is that a '69 Camaro SS?"
I glance back at her as I unlock the door. "Yeah. You know cars?"
She shakes her head, her lips trembling. "Just this one."
Her reaction is too strong to be normal. People don't usually get choked up at the sight of a car. There's something about this car specifically that freaks her out.
It takes a second for her to smile, but she forces the expression onto her face. "It's my sister's favorite car. — Erica Cameron

as though the Universe itself were under an obligation to bother itself about them, for it never gets tired of wrapping up God Himself in the petty misery in which its troubles are involved. And — Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought trail one another in my brain running from the back up to the front and dripping down again under my chin: I'm no one; I'll never make it in my life; I'm about to get revealed as a fake, I've already been revealed as a fake but I don't know it yet; I know I'm a fake and pretend not to. All the good thoughts - the normal ones, the ones that have occasionally surfaced since last fall - scramble out the front of my brain in terror of what lives in my neck and spine. This is the worst it'll ever be — Ned Vizzini