Oxford Dictionary Famous Quotes & Sayings

If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too — Dave Hampton

Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries. — Michael Ruhlman

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege. — Mark Twain

I regret that children died, but I felt like God. It was the power of God over a human being ... I got very little pleasure from anything else in life. But in the strangling of children I felt a sensation and degree of pleasure and of accomplishment. Because it was such a good feeling, I wanted to duplicate it. — Peter Woodcock

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married. — Khalil Gibran

Husband and wife, must complement each other. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name. — Isabel Wilkerson

To create a space for all our words, Drawing us to listen inward and outward. We seldom notice how each day is a holy place Where the eucharist of the ordinary happens, Transforming our broken fragments Into an eternal continuity that keeps us. Somewhere in us a dignity presides That is more gracious than the smallness That fuels us with fear and force, A dignity that trusts the form a day takes. So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown And for the secret work Through which the mind of the day And wisdom of the soul become one. — John O'Donohue

We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them? — Carl Honore

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened. — Carla Gugino

The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?" — William Arthur Ward

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail. — William Friedkin