Quotes By Famous Authors: [G]
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover ...
I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.
One extraordinary thing happened as a result of the fear caused by your people, and that was that old feuds and envies disappeared. Those among ...
Take sleep mark death.
Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out ...
Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it ...
U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these day. It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September ...
Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form ...
'Up the Junction' really made me understand the power of cinema to create a vivid sense of a community. When I went on to make ...
There are days when we can bring before God ... laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster ...
He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.
I don't think I can be a bright and fresh-looking actress. I am not really confident in that kind of character.
Aaargh...that'll teach me to eat pig in the promised land. Sorry Baby Jesus.
To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.
War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.
I like to see candidates who are busy finding what they are good at and what they enjoy. I call it being busy with a ...
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull ...
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or ...
To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, ...
In his youth, Jon Connington had shared the disdain most knights had for bowmen, but he had grown wiser in exile.
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
My calves feel like pool balls and I'm huffing like an asthmatic Snuffleupagus.
Skate, if it were possible to choose who we fall in love with, no one would ever get it done, because we'd all be chasing ...
Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.
As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I ...
Forgiveness can be viewed as love, But love doesn't always guarantee forgiveness.
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. ...
Just assume the answer to every question is compassion.
I am a big man, and I have a laugh to match my size.
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in ...
I stare at the empty horizon for helpAnd it hints me to drown into the ocean wavesPerhaps like the sun I will drown todayAnd rise ...
Just as I watch him sit on a beach, on the trembling verge of walking out of his prison, so I watch all of us ...
There are no perfect days, only happy moments in time when each of us can reaffirm our own truth.
Sometimes, Nathaniel, friends can be like nice boots on a drowning man.
Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what ...
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.
It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty ...
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these ...
There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why ...
I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. ...
God created the angels to serve Him and his people. If there is anything we can learn from the Bible about angels, it's that they ...
There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.
As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.
There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.
Desserts is just stressed spelled backwards.
The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.