Informit Books Quotes & Sayings

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime. — Simone De Beauvoir

Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Being yourself is easier than trying to be someone else. The former requires no effort. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China. — Michael Moore

There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak. — Zinedine Zidane

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. — Bill Watterson

What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways. — Judith Martin

Good gods, female," Addolgar muttered. "What did you do with yourself before I came into your life?"
"I lived quietly alone in my cave," she snapped back. "And I was quite happy there, too. — G.A. Aiken

To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience. — Harriet Rubin

Because life is not a fairytale, but we all need that one person who keeps the dream alive. You are that person for me. — E.K. Blair

Gold
the picklock that never fails. — Philip Massinger

The capacity for loyalty is stretched too thin when it tries to attach itself to the hypothetical solidarity of the human race. — Christopher Lasch