Imprescindible In English Quotes & Sayings

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything. — Roscoe Mitchell

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot. — Samuel Johnson

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution. — James Madison

The problem with being me, thought Isabel, as she walked along George IV Bridge, is that I keep thinking about the problem of being me. — Alexander McCall Smith

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full possession of their spiritual faculties; and it is well and wisely ordered that it is so. What we win easily, we seldom value sufficiently. The very fact that believers have to struggle and fight hard before they get hold of real soundness in the faith, helps to make them prize it more when they have attained it. The truths that cost us a battle are precisely those which we grasp most firmly, and never let go. — J.C. Ryle

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it. — Marjane Satrapi

Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what "is written" are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it. — Finis Jennings Dake

I've always been a good ensemble player. — Mimi Kennedy

It is not the length of life, but it is the love for life, that determines the value of your life. — Debasish Mridha

They rode for days through the rain and they rode through rain and hail and rain again. In that gray storm light they crossed a flooded plain with the footed shapes of the horses reflected in the water among clouds and mountains and the riders slumped forward and rightly skeptic of the shimmering cities on the distant shore of that sea whereon they trod miraculous. They climbed up through rolling grasslands where small birds shied away chittering down the wind and a buzzard labored up from among bones with wings that went whoop whoop whoop like a child's toy swung on a string and in the long red sunset the sheets of water on the plain below them lay like tidepools of primal blood. — Cormac McCarthy

Can you live with that? Can you be so fucking selfless to take me at my worst, my best, my messed-up self and stand by me even when I break? — Pepper Winters

It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege. — Tom Hiddleston