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.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

Aldo Leopold

There are degrees and kinds of solitude. ... I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

Aldo Leopold

He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

Alexander Hamilton

Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape.

Alexander Hamilton

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

Alexander MacLaren

Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Jane Austen

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

Boris Pasternak

Failure to love is almost like murder.

Blaise Pascal

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Deborah Tannen

The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Barbara Cartland

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

David Nicholls

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

Alexander Lowen

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

E. M. Forster

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

George H. W. Bush

even better and stronger than before the storm.

Albert Camus

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

Thomas S. Monson

We learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass.

Robert A. Heinlein

Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.

Tim Kaine

Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's made our nation stronger.