Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

George Henry Lewes

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

Gustav Klimt

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

Jazmine Sullivan

I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

Mindy Kaling

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

Mike Royko

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.

Kathleen Norris

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

Klaus Schwab

We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust.

Moliere

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Molly Ivins

I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?

J. K. Rowling

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Jennie Finch

I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.

Gloria Estefan

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

Giacomo Puccini

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Gertrude Stein

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Hudson Taylor

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

Horace Mann

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Erica Jong

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

Hippocrates

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Hillary Clinton

Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

Herbert Simon

One finds limits by pushing them.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Jack Ma

For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.

Isabel Allende

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Harriet Tubman

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

Harriet Tubman

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Gracie Allen

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.