Ambitiously Define Quotes & Sayings

I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion, — Rich Mullins

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them. — Matthew Henry

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race. — Ellsworth Huntington

She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained. — Kate Morton

There is some strange sense in which distance and closeness are sisters, the two sides of the one experience. Distance awakens longing; closeness is belonging. Yet they are always in a dynamic interflow with each other. When we fix or locate them definitively, we injure our growth. It is an interesting imaginative exercise to interchange them: to consider what is near as distant and to consider the distant as intimate. — John O'Donohue

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential. — Cristina Saralegui

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now. — Jacob Burckhardt

Scorpius trots up to his dad.
Draco: We can hug too if you like ...
Scorpius looks at his dad, unsure for a moment. And then they sort of half hug in a very awkward way. Draco smiles. — J.K. Rowling

Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behaviour of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience. — Julian Barnes

I'm very grateful because my fans are very loyal. — Cliff Richard