Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hofstadter

There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

Richard Dawkins

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

Richelle Mead

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Rebecca West

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Russell Brand

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

Ruben Hinojosa

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

Rose Macaulay

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

Ronda Rousey

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

Romeo Dallaire

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Louis Menand

The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

Oliver Goldsmith

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Puff Daddy

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

Busy Philipps

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

Douglas Adams

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Annie Dillard

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Amanda Fuller

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Rudyard Kipling

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

Genevieve Bujold

I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

James Fenton

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.