92243 Quotes & Sayings

Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction. — Florence King

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Writers do not write about places, they write about people who happen to live in those places. This is something that the labellers and their labels don't understand either. — Aminatta Forna

If I were you, I wouldn't try and track her down."
"Why not?"
"Because when it comes to Dee, you're better off not knowing where she's going or what she's up to. You'll only have to lie to the authorities later. — Shelly Laurenston

13As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. 14For he knows our frame; [220] he remembers that we are dust. — Anonymous

The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people — Oche Otorkpa

I feel like I've got far more gay fans in America ... Maybe they caught wind that I have a cute Jewish brother who's gay. — Jessie Ware

I know now that I don't want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all. — Jenny Han

That's it, I think, crumpling the pages into one tiny ball of suck. I'm done banging my head against this stone wall; I don't care if I have to begin my article, "Vlad likes three things: fencing, himself, and killing off his siblings." I don't care if I have to lie and - oops - report that Vlad likes finger painting with dolphin blood in his spare time. We're now entering full investigative mode. — A.M. Robinson

But there were times when you needed trees, and the shame of it, Jaime thought, was that his children were growing up thinking of trees as firewood and his grandchildren would think of trees as history. But — Terry Pratchett

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months. — Gregory Hines

One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances. — Richard Madden

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak. — E. Lockhart

When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise. — Martin Amis