FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

There's this thing you're supposed to be part of in London. But what is it? That's the million-dollar question. Everyone's there because they're searching, aspiring. A very small percentage is ... (Craig Taylor)

As I watched my family sip champagne, I thought about how their lives trailed backward and forward from my death and then, I saw, as Samuel took the daring step ... (Alice Sebold)

Join the mob or go for what you want. Give yourself plenty of quiet time alone in order to get in touch with who you are ... Focus power of ... (Mark Seal)

The worse thing I have done in my life is Diary writing ... a wastage of time, wastage of papers filled with some imaginary feelings and bunch of silly activities ... (Saket Assertive)

You are so full of light," I say after a moment. "You align with joy, and I with fear and fury. If you could see into my thoughts, you would ... (Marie Lu)

Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative ... (Joyce Meyer)

Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others ... (Miguel Cotto)

I think the best life would be one that's lived off the grid. No bills, your name in no government databases. No real proof you're even who you say you ... (Joey Comeau)

Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack ... (Mother Teresa)

Those who seek to glorify biblical womanhood have forgotten the dark stories. They have forgotten that the concubine of Bethlehem, the raped princess of David's house, the daughter of Jephthah, ... (Rachel Held Evans)

Who cares if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it? The tree still falls. If you believe that what you're doing will have positive results, it ... (Sophia Amoruso)

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and ... (Sarah Ban Breathnach)

What I liked was the train ride. It took an hour and that was enough for me to be able to lean backwards against the seat with closed eyes, feel ... (Per Petterson)

I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me. ... (Ray Bradbury)

We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to ... (Carlos Slim)

In Hindu parlance he had 'realised the Self'; that is to say, he had realised by direct experience that nothing existed apart from an indivisible and universal consciousness which was ... (David Godman)

She saw a man standing on her back porch stoop. And it was a man, not a lawnmower or a vacuum cleaner but an actual man. Luckily, she had time ... (Stephen King)

At the turn of the century, parishioners attacked vaudeville as a sinful venture. Organized boycotts adversely affected ticket sales. Benjamin Franklin Keith's wife was deeply religious and prodded her husband ... (Kliph Nesteroff)

Zoe also knew her stepmother did not love her. Or even like her very much. In truth, Zoe was pretty sure her stepmother hated her. Sheila treated her at worst ... (David Walliams)

The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a persona that is very much like ... (Anne Fadiman)

It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, ... (Bruce Willis)

You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever ... (Elliot Perlman)

In this way all violent bonds and orders are cancelled as if the freedom of the primal world had been restored with one blow. Man, too, is made open and ... (Walter F. Otto)

How's it going today, Riot?" I said. "I'm Gideon." Nice. Two sentences and I'd already managed to embarrass myself. In front of Daryn and a horse. I hadn't even realized ... (Veronica Rossi)

There's a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it's really just the inability to carry on clambering through the ... (Glen Duncan)

Don't wait until Christmas to show love. You never know those who will breathe their last breath before the sacred season. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel ... (Lindsay Lohan)

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see how this worked at its starkest in Xenophon's ... (David Graeber)

Love?' he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only ... (Faraaz Kazi)

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have ... (Amanda Donohoe)

Why marry an abuser when you can marry a nurturer? Why marry a belittler when you can marry an encourager? Why marry a hater when you can marry a supporter? ... (Matshona Dhliwayo)

There is nothing more magical than love. Nothing. ... (Ymatruz)

The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia, like the immense sadness of ... (Bao Ninh)

I have a secret. A big, fat, hairy secret. And I'm not talking minor-league stuff, like I once let Joseph Applebaum feel me up behind the seventh-grade stairwell or I ... (Karen MacInerney)

If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who ... (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Crap. I thought that picture was you.' He pointed. 'That's not me. That's my mother,' Mal said with a sigh. 'Woah, you really do look like her, you know,' Jay ... (Melissa de la Cruz)

Bonaventure's theology is never about trying to placate a distant or angry God, earn forgiveness, or find some abstract theory of justification. He is all cosmic optimism and hope! Once ... (Richard Rohr)

Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy ... And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220 ... (Rainbow Rowell)

How to be the best that you can be ... (Meg Cabot)

Both scientists and laypeople can find themselves seduced into the easy trap of wanting to assign each function of the brain to a specific location. Perhaps because of pressure for ... (David Eagleman)

I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, ... (Dan Chaon)

To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a ... (Erwin W. Lutzer)

Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God; face the brighter light and cast behind the dark shadows! ... (Israelmore Ayivor)

People who have made India awesome aren't all politicians. Most of the people that did this are not from the government. Whether it is entrepreneurs like J.R.D. Tata and N.R. ... (Chetan Bhagat)

She slapped his shoulder. "You... you go down to breakfast, Gram. I'll be there as soon as I shower and dress." "Have you been exercising? You sound out of breath." ... (Vonnie Davis)

A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her. ... (Shannon L. Alder)

We kiss for a long time, a good long time. I don't even notice that it's cold and I forget to be afraid because that's just how good a kisser ... (Carrie Jones)

Great! I hope different police officers are here this time." "Might be, but we're in the same police jurisdiction. I'm certain from the last time you were here, they probably ... (Terry Spear)

I do share with the lieutenant (Columbo) one very pronounced part of his personality - he loves to talk about his wife. You can't shut him up. I have the ... (Peter Falk)

But I still think that's a pretty fine age. Maybe the best age. You can rock and roll all night, but when the music dies out and the beer wears ... (Stephen King)

If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all. ... (Dawn Garcia)

But the long tunnels of art through which I walked in Rome that day had no ragged edges, cowardly colors, or shades of pastel that didn't know what to do ... (Mark Helprin)

I was left an orphan while I was still a child, and we were very poor. Sometimes I would stand for hours on end in ecstasy outside a baker's shop, ... (Richard Wurmbrand)

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go. ... (Bill Crawford)

Plus, I can't look at him the same since I ran into Mrs. Marino at our family reunion. It's not comforting to learn you've made out with your cousin." "Third ... (Cecily White)

Junction nineteen! Una, she came off at Junction nineteen! You've added an hour to your journey before you even started. Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love ... (Helen Fielding)

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe ... (George Michael)

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not ... (Ronald Kessler)

Mom as it's your birthday And, unfortunately, not mine Give me some money and I'll get out your hair While you have a large glass of wine I try so ... (John Walter Bratton)

Peter Koestenbaum also elaborated on the importance of others, particularly romantic lovers, in the existential context. Love is the choice to create and reflect each other mutually, verifying and illuminating ... (Skye Cleary)