FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders ... It is a species of poison that ... (Francois Fenelon)

Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle ... (Matthew Quick)

Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and ... (Ravi Zacharias)

I couldn't believe it; my deepest darkest fantasy of a cute school girl slowly stripping in front of me was finally unbelievingly coming true! Furthermore, it wasn't just any school ... (Andrew James Pritchard)

The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what ... (Beau Willimon)

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. ... (May Sarton)

I think they liked you more than they like me. Eric said that I must get really angry when I'm Irish if you don't want to be my boyfriend." A ... (K.A. Tucker)

I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.' ... (Patty Loveless)

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there. ... (Mehmet Oz)

This is a part of post-college life that nobody ever warns you about. Your social life is no longer dropped into your lap by virtue of shared classes and extracurricular ... (Lauren Layne)

God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in the world how can you understand God? ... (Amit Ray)

There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic certainty of one particular path. But enlightenment doesn't ... (Thaddeus Golas)

The most important thing we've done," he said to an audience at Andiquar University, "was to get off-world. That was the single act that opened the universe to us. We ... (Jack McDevitt)

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. ... (George Sanders)

There were those Hosts who thought something better could have been said and better thoughts therefore thought, had I only been made to do other things than I had. That ... (China Mieville)

How peculiar. Perhaps it's a programming glitch." She stared down into Iko's single sensor. "A programming glitch." "Sure. You have programming, don't you?" Iko lifted a spindly arm and gestured ... (Marissa Meyer)

The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact ... (Tom Lehrer)

Honestly, I had no idea how to respond. My senior year of college I'd taken a seminar titled Public Education: Situations and Strategies. I thought about emailing my professor, maybe ... (Tucker Elliot)

Hope is the moonlight filtering through the trees, Hope is the silent prayer that we make in distress, Hope is the promise that we make to ourselves, Hope is the ... (Balroop Singh)

At a time when the current and two former US presidents have admittedly indulged, as have politicians of all stripes from Al Gore to Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin and ... (Jeffrey Dhywood)

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have ... (Julian Bond)

It was beautiful, and that is a word I would not need to explain to the girls from back home, and I do not need to explain to you, because ... (Chris Cleave)

It is estimated over 80% of all illnesses today are spiritual in nature. ... (Johnny Hunt)

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. ... (Henry Ward Beecher)

Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill revealed a shade or tint ... (Michael Ende)

There's no relief, really, for me. I have relief after the Super Bowl. I set a goal to win the Super Bowl and that's where I'm going with it. ... (Donovan McNabb)

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. ... (Carly Fiorina)

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis. ... (Frederick Lenz)

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely Went to ... (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

So how do you find out what God thinks? The Christian says, you look in the Bible. And the Bible tells us that God forbids homosexual acts. Therefore, they are ... (William Lane Craig)