Specially Selected Quotes & Sayings

Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake. — Ellen Raskin

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective. — Morihei Ueshiba

I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God. — Sam Bradford

When words come out of your mouth, do your ears just block all incoming sound waves? — Amethyst Marie

In order to get positive results, fill your mind with positive thoughts and take action. — Debasish Mridha

In a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box. — Marilyn French

You, I said, who are their legislator, having selected the men, will now select the women and give them to them; - they must be as far as possible of like natures with them; and they must live in common houses and meet at common meals. None of them will have anything specially his or her own; they will be together, and will be brought up together, and will associate at gymnastic exercises. And so they will be drawn by a necessity of their natures to have intercourse with each other - necessity is not too strong a word, I think? Yes, — Plato

You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one — Rainer Maria Rilke

Even a cockroach can be legendary by being killed by a legend. — Munia Khan

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty. — Charles Spurgeon

I've seen people who are not very likeable but hilarious. I think comedians get to a point where they know they're funny, so they don't care - in the sense that they know what they're doing. They have a skill. — Ted Alexandro

I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. — Kirk Douglas

Though strength be wanting, the will to action
Merits praise. — Ovid

Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like ducking glass mole. — Cassandra Clare

The jury had persuaded themselves that he was decent, because they had wanted to think that in his shoes they would have been decent too. They had no idea how decency, loyalty, courage, how it all shrivelled away when one was frightened. — Sarah Waters

She may have been a brainless female for being out in a storm that night, — Anne Bishop