Famous Quotes

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

~ Bill Watterson

Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you.

~ Jim Butcher

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...

~ Jane Austen

The only reason I'm friends with any of you is because I outgrew the von Trapps, one annoying Austrian at a time.

~ Lisa Mantchev

You never get mad,” she said when their server left the table. “Except at me.”“That’s not true,” he said tightly. “Torie can get me going.”“Torie doesn’t count. You were obviously her mother in a previous life.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

~ Raymond Chandler

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

~ Albert Camus

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

~ Stephen Hawking

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

~ William Shakespeare

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

~ Albert Einstein

Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.

~ Plato

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

~ Benjamin Spock

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

~ Frank Zappa

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

~ Elie Wiesel

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

~ Bertrand Russell

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

~ Albert Einstein

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

~ Richard Dawkins

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

~ Malcolm X

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

~ Douglas Adams

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

~ William Blake

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

~ Lao Tzu

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

~ Santosh Kalwar

You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face

~ Ian Fleming

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

~ John Keats

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

~ Adolf Hitler

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

~ Natalie Babbitt

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

~ Yann Martel

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

~ Oscar Wilde

Science is not only compatible with spirituality, it is a profound source of spirituality.

~ Carl Sagan

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. Can they be brought together? This is a practical question. We must get down to it. I despise intelligence really means: I cannot bear my doubts.

~ Albert Camus

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

~ Confucius

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

~ Judy Blume

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

~ Plato

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

~ Albert Einstein