Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Black

I have a huge crush on Josh Hutcherson and all the guys in One Direction!

Simone Weil

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

George R. R. Martin

My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.

Garth Brooks

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Frank Sinatra

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Helen Keller

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

Helen Keller

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

Cassandra Clare

He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Jack Chick

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

Atharva Veda

To death do I hand them over, with the fetters of death they have been bound. To the evil messengers of death do I lead them captive.

James Jones

Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of the Rebellion.

Dan Haren

Every game is a must-win. This time of year, it's life or death right now.

Ovid

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Brandon Sanderson

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Brian Andreas

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

Carson McCullers

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Charles Darwin

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Dirk Benedict

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

Bernie Sanders

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.