Unshorten Quotes & Sayings

There's no shortage of material in life. — Jonathan Ames

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy. — Wolfgang Puck

Think it not strange if you should frequently feel yourself to have failed, nor wonder if it should turn out that at such times you have best succeeded. You must not expect to become sufficient as of yourself; no habit or exercise can render you independent of divine assistance; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art. — Terry Teachout

What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are vampire states. Vampires because they suck the economic vitality out of their people. Government is the problem in Africa. — George Ayittey

I'll think of you, just like I promised."
"And I'll think of you, just like I have every day," Tamani said. — Aprilynne Pike

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of. — Sylvia Kristel

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively. — Albert Einstein

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp. — James H. Billington

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth — Joseph Goebbels

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it. — Dorothy Nevill

Indeed, as others have said, the most dangerous place in the United States for a human being is inside the womb of a woman. — R.C. Sproul