Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Dalai Lama

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Andrew Bacevich

Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

Christy Mathewson

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Christopher Marlowe

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Bram Stoker

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Bram Stoker

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Max Heindel

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

Jennifer Morrison

I got really jealous. Being in touch with Cameron's feelings, it was kind of hard to watch.

Evelyn Underhill

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Thomas Merton

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Tanith Lee

No one is ever ordinary.

Iyanla Vanzant

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

Veronica Roth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Ralph Goodale

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