Famous Quotes

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

~ Jess C. Scott

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

~ Neil Gaiman

Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him.

~ Shannon L. Alder

the truth will set u free but first it will piss u off

~ Albert Borris

Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

~ Jodi Picoult

It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.

~ Brittney Ryan

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting

~ Erich Maria Remarque

You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves.p.32

~ Stephen Elliott

The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.

~ Joanne Fluke

Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.

~ Steve Maraboli

victimnoun \ˈvik-təm\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

~ Jane Austen

By their actions, they will show you who they are.

~ Leah Remini

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

~ Gore Vidal

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

~ E.l. Doctorow

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

~ Charlotte Eriksson

There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

~ David Hume

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

~ Carter G. Woodson

That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

~ Sarah Dessen

Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for.

~ Turcois Ominek

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

~ St. Vincent De Paul

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

~ Eduardo Galeano

The truth of the story lies in the details.

~ Paul Auster

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

~ Suzy Kassem

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

~ Jess C. Scott

There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I am certain it came to make me smile.

~ Nikki Rowe

I'll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that's what's called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can.

~ Laura Pritchett

The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength

~ Sophocles

No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.

~ Toba Beta

A women can run, hide, play and have fun but she will shine far better when she just smiles without none.

~ Santosh Kalwar

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

~ Nora Roberts

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

~ David Gemmell

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

~ Criss Jami

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

~ Lauren Weisberger

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

~ Herbert Agar

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.

~ Shaun Jeffrey