Desktop Background Quotes & Sayings

All of his saves have come in relief appearances. — Ralph Kiner

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say. — Gabrielle Zevin

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free. — Tullian Tchividjian

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative. — Ian Schrager

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. — Tom Hiddleston

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force. — Ian McEwan

We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan — Tommy Franks

Those created creations were treated like tools that talked, their sentience an annoying product of magic noise, by those little mortal demiurges who thought dominion a natural by-product of expertise or creation. — China Mieville

... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous things which made him so. The iron forged on the anvil cannot be blamed for the hammer... — Terry Pratchett

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired. — Robert A. Heinlein

Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves. — Okakura Kakuzo

Come on!" she screamed, kicking and hitting. "You want to hurt, you want to hurt me? Let's do it! Let's fucking fight, you and me, let's fucking bleed! We can bleed, one on one! — Lucian Bane

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion. — Kevin Pietersen

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. — Joseph Wood Krutch

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor. — Henry A. Kissinger