Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.
On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot.
I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.
When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving.
I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
Is it adultery if I’m committing it at one end of a guy and he’s committing it at the other end of that same guy?
This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.
I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.
Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.
There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.
Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.
To meet the energy challenge requires the most important energy of all - human creativity. That's the real prize.
If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.
Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.
I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.
To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.
Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.
I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . .
I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.
Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.
I've got a young man who works for me who says you don't need to discover your dreams - you need to recover them.
Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.
The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.
Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.
You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.
There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.
When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.
Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.
You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.
True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.