Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Sarah Silverman

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

Vladimir Lenin

He who does not work shall not eat

Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Saint Francis de Sales

The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.

Emily Giffin

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

Maggie Stiefvater

I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.

Federico Fellini

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

George R. R. Martin

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

Gregory Maguire

Happy endings are still endings.